Números 11:10

Queja de Moisés en Quibrot Hatavá

10 Moisés escuchó que las familias del pueblo lloraban, cada una a la entrada de su tienda, con lo cual hacían que la ira del SEÑOR se encendiera en extremo. Entonces, muy disgustado,

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 salía a recogerlo, y lo molía entre dos piedras, o bien lo machacaba en morteros, y lo cocía en una olla o hacía pan con él. Sabía a pan amasado con aceite.

9 Por la noche, cuando el rocío caía sobre el campamento, también caía el maná.

10 Moisés escuchó que las familias del pueblo lloraban, cada una a la entrada de su tienda, con lo cual hacían que la ira del SEÑOR se encendiera en extremo. Entonces, muy disgustado,

11 Moisés oró al SEÑOR:—Si yo soy tu siervo, ¿por qué me perjudicas? ¿Por qué me niegas tu favor y me obligas a cargar con todo este pueblo?

12 ¿Acaso yo lo concebí, o lo di a luz, para que me exijas que lo lleve en mi regazo, como si fuera su nodriza, y lo lleve hasta la tierra que les prometiste a sus antepasados?