Números 11:10

10 Y oyó Moisés al pueblo, que lloraba por sus familias, cada uno a la puerta de su tienda; y el furor del SEÑOR se encendió en gran manera; también le pareció mal a Moisés

Números 11:10 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 11:10

Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families,
&c.] So general was their lusting after flesh, and their discontent for want of it; and so great their distress and uneasiness about it, that they wept and cried for it, and so loud and clamorous, that Moses heard the noise and outcry they made:

every man in the door of his tent:
openly and publicly, were not ashamed of their evil and unbecoming behaviour, and in order to excite and encourage the like temper and disposition in others; though it may have respect, as some have observed, to the door of the tent of Moses, about which they gathered and mutinied; and which better accounts for his hearing the general cry they made; and so in an ancient writing of the Jews it is said ^F12, they were waiting for Moses until he came out at the door of the school; and they were sitting and murmuring:

and the anger of the Lord was kindled greatly;
because of their ingratitude to him, their contempt of the manna he had provided for them, and their hankering after their poor fare in Egypt, and for which they had endured so much hardship and ill usage, and for the noise and clamour they now made:

Moses also was displeased;
with the people on the same account, and with the Lord also for laying and continuing so great a burden upon him, as the care of this people, which appears by what follows.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 Siphri apud Yalkut in loc.

Números 11:10 In-Context

8 El pueblo se esparcía, y lo recogía, y lo molía en molinos, o lo majaba en morteros, y lo cocía en caldera, o hacía de él tortas; y su sabor era como sabor de aceite nuevo

9 Y cuando descendía el rocío sobre el campamento de noche, el maná descendía sobre él

10 Y oyó Moisés al pueblo, que lloraba por sus familias, cada uno a la puerta de su tienda; y el furor del SEÑOR se encendió en gran manera; también le pareció mal a Moisés

11 Y dijo Moisés al SEÑOR: ¿Por qué has hecho mal a tu siervo? ¿y por qué no he hallado gracia en tus ojos, que has puesto la carga de todo este pueblo sobre mí

12 ¿Concebí yo a todo este pueblo? ¿Lo engendré yo, para que me digas: Llévalo en tu seno, como lleva la que cría al que mama, a la tierra de la cual juraste a sus padres