Numbers 11:13

13 "Where can I get meat for all of these people? They keep crying out to me. They say, 'Give us meat to eat!'

Numbers 11:13 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 11:13

Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people?
&c.] This seems to countenance the Israelites in their lusting after flesh, as if it was no evil in them, and as if it was but right they should have what they desired, though it was out of his power to give it them:

for they weep unto me, saying, give us flesh, that we may eat;
he seems to pity them, whereas he ought to have reproved them for their murmurings and ingratitude, and put them in mind of the manna which was provided for them every day, and with which they ought to have been content.

Numbers 11:13 In-Context

11 He asked the Lord, "Why have you brought this trouble on me? Why aren't you pleased with me? Why have you loaded me down with the troubles of all of these people?

12 "Am I like a mother to them? Are they my children? Why do you tell me to carry them in my arms? Do I have to carry them the way a nurse carries a baby? Do I have to carry them to the land you promised? You took an oath and promised the land to their people of long ago.

13 "Where can I get meat for all of these people? They keep crying out to me. They say, 'Give us meat to eat!'

14 I can't carry all of these people by myself. The load is too heavy for me.

15 "Is this how you are going to treat me? If you are pleased with me, just put me to death right now. Don't let me live if I have to see myself destroyed anyway."