Numbers 11:19

19 You won't eat it just one day, or two days, or five, or ten, 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, and I will take some of the Spirit which rests on you and put it on them. Then they will carry the burden of the people along with you, so that you won't carry it yourself alone.

18 "Tell the people, 'Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat; because you cried in the ears of ADONAI, "If only we had meat to eat! We had the good life in Egypt!" All right, ADONAI is going to give you meat, and you will eat it.

19 You won't eat it just one day, or two days, or five, or ten, or twenty days,

20 but a whole month! -until it comes out of your nose and you hate it! -because you have rejected ADONAI, who is here with you, and distressed him with your crying and asking, "Why did we ever leave Egypt?"'"

21 But Moshe said, "Here I am with six hundred thousand men on foot, and yet you say, 'I will give them meat to eat for a whole month!'