Numbers 11:19

19 You will eat, not one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days,

Numbers 11:19 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 11:19

Ye shall not eat one day
Only, as in ( Exodus 16:12 ) ;

nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;
but even thirty days, a whole month, as in ( Numbers 11:20 ) .

Numbers 11:19 In-Context

17 I will come down and speak with you there; I will take away from the spirit that [is] on you, and I will place [it] on them; and they will bear the burdens of the people with you; you will not bear it alone.

18 And you will say to the people, 'Sanctify yourselves tomorrow, for you will eat meat because you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, "Who will feed us good meat? [It was] good for us in Egypt." Yahweh will give to you meat, and you will eat.

19 You will eat, not one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days,

20 {but for a whole month}, until it comes out from your nose and becomes as nausea to you; because you have rejected Yahweh, who [is] in your midst, and you wept before {his presence}, saying, "Why did we ever leave Egypt?" '"

21 But Moses said, "[There are] six hundred thousand on foot, among whom I [am] in the midst, and you yourself said, 'I will give meat to them, and they will eat for a whole month.'