Numbers 11:13

13 From where do I have meat to give all these people? They weep before me, saying, 'Give us meat and let us eat!'

Numbers 11:13 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 11:13

Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people?
&c.] This seems to countenance the Israelites in their lusting after flesh, as if it was no evil in them, and as if it was but right they should have what they desired, though it was out of his power to give it them:

for they weep unto me, saying, give us flesh, that we may eat;
he seems to pity them, whereas he ought to have reproved them for their murmurings and ingratitude, and put them in mind of the manna which was provided for them every day, and with which they ought to have been content.

Numbers 11:13 In-Context

11 And Moses said to Yahweh, "Why have you brought trouble to your servant? Why have I not found favor in your eyes, that the burdens of all these people have been placed on me?

12 Did I conceive all these people? If I have fathered them, that you could say to me, 'Carry them in your lap, just as a foster-father carries the suckling on the land that you swore an oath to their ancestors?'

13 From where do I have meat to give all these people? They weep before me, saying, 'Give us meat and let us eat!'

14 I am not able to carry all these people along alone; they are too heavy for me.

15 If this is how you [are] going to treat me, please kill me immediately if I find favor in your eyes, and do not let me see my misery."