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19 not only for a day, or for two days, or for five days, or for ten days, or for 20 days, 20 but for a whole month—until it comes out your nostrils and makes you vomit. This is because you’ve despised the Lord, who is among you, and you cried out in his presence by complaining, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?”’”

Moses Doubts God’s Ability

21 Moses responded, “I’m with 600,000 people on foot and you’re saying I am to give them enough[a] meat to eat for a whole month?

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 11:21 The Heb. lacks enough

19 You will not eat it for just one day, or two days, or five, ten or twenty days, 20 but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and you loathe it(A)—because you have rejected the Lord,(B) who is among you, and have wailed before him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?”’”(C)

21 But Moses said, “Here I am among six hundred thousand men(D) on foot, and you say, ‘I will give them meat to eat for a whole month!’

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