Numeri 11:33

33 Da aber das Fleisch noch unter ihren Zähnen war und ehe es aufgezehrt war, da ergrimmte der Zorn des HERRN unter dem Volk, und schlug sie mit einer sehr großen Plage.

Numeri 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.

Numeri 11:33 In-Context

31 Da fuhr aus der Wind von dem HERRN und ließ Wachteln kommen vom Meer und streute sie über das Lager, hier eine Tagereise lang, da eine Tagereise lang um das Lager her, zwei Ellen hoch über der Erde.

32 Da machte sich das Volk auf denselben ganzen Tag und die ganze Nacht und den ganzen andern Tag und sammelten Wachteln; und welcher am wenigsten sammelte, der sammelte zehn Homer. Uns sie hängten sie auf um das Lager her.

33 Da aber das Fleisch noch unter ihren Zähnen war und ehe es aufgezehrt war, da ergrimmte der Zorn des HERRN unter dem Volk, und schlug sie mit einer sehr großen Plage.

34 Daher heißt diese Stätte Lustgräber, darum daß man daselbst begrub das lüsterne Volk. {~}

35 Von den Lustgräbern aber zog das Volk aus gen Hazeroth, und sie blieben zu Hazeroth.