Números 11:33

33 Quando a carne ainda estava entre os seus dentes, antes que fosse mastigada, acendeu-se a ira do Senhor contra o povo, e feriu o Senhor ao povo com uma praga, mui grande.

Números 11:33 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 11:33

And while the flesh [was] yet between their teeth
When they had just got it into their mouths, and were about to bite it: ere it was chewed;
or "cut off"; or cut into pieces by the "incisores", or fore teeth, and then ground by the "molares", or grinders, and so became fit to be swallowed. Both quails and locusts were eaten as food; the former is a fat and delicious fowl, and the latter, some sorts of them, at least, were allowed clean food for the Jews, and were fed on by many people: the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people;
for their lusting after flesh, and despising the manna: and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague;
the pestilence, as Aben Ezra; or with fire, as Bochart ^F5, who gives the following reasons why the people were so severely punished now, and not before, when they murmured on a like account; because their sin's were greater, and more aggravated, they falling again into the same sin which had been forgiven them; and besides, they were before pressed with famine, now they had a plenty of manna every day; and also were better instructed, having received the law, which was not yet given when they were just come out of Egypt. Sulpitius ^F6 the historian says, 23,000 perished at this time.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 Ut supra, (Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 1. c. 15.) col. 109.

Números 11:33 In-Context

31 Soprou, então, um vento da parte do Senhor e, do lado do mar, trouxe codornizes que deixou cair junto ao arraial quase caminho de um dia de um e de outro lado, � roda do arraial, a cerca de dois côvados da terra.

32 Então o povo, levantando-se, colheu as codornizes por todo aquele dia e toda aquela noite, e por todo o dia seguinte; o que colheu menos, colheu dez hômeres. E as estenderam para si ao redor do arraial.

33 Quando a carne ainda estava entre os seus dentes, antes que fosse mastigada, acendeu-se a ira do Senhor contra o povo, e feriu o Senhor ao povo com uma praga, mui grande.

34 Pelo que se chamou aquele lugar Quibrote-Hataavá, porquanto ali enterraram o povo que tivera o desejo.

35 De Quibrote-Hataavá partiu o povo para Hazerote; e demorou-se em Hazerote.