Números 11:10

10 Entonces Moisés escuchó los lloriqueos de las familias a la entrada de sus carpas y el Señor
se enfureció. Moisés también estaba muy molesto,

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 La gente salía a recogerlo del suelo. Con el maná se hacía harina en los molinos de mano o se machacaba en un mortero. Luego se hervía en una olla para hacer panes planos que sabían a pastelitos horneados con aceite de oliva.

9 Durante la noche, el maná caía sobre el campamento juntamente con el rocío.

10 Entonces Moisés escuchó los lloriqueos de las familias a la entrada de sus carpas y el Señor
se enfureció. Moisés también estaba muy molesto,

11 y le dijo al Señor
:
—¿Por qué me tratas a mí, tu servidor, con tanta dureza? ¡Ten misericordia de mí! ¿Qué hice para merecer la carga de todo este pueblo?

12 ¿Acaso yo los engendré? ¿Los traje yo al mundo? ¿Por qué me dijiste que los llevara en mis brazos como una madre a un bebé de pecho? ¿Cómo puedo llevarlos a la tierra que juraste dar a sus antepasados?