◄ Numbers 11:13 ►
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Good News Translation
Where could I get enough meat for all these people? They keep whining and asking for meat.

New Revised Standard Version
Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they come weeping to me and say, ‘Give us meat to eat!’

Contemporary English Version
They keep whining for meat, but where can I get meat for them?

New American Bible
Where can I get meat to give to all this people? For they are crying to me, ‘Give us meat for our food.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whence should I have flesh to give to so great a multitude? They weep against me, saying: Give us flesh that we may eat.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Whence should I have flesh to give to so great a multitude? They weep against me, saying: Give us flesh that we may eat.

Matthew 15:33 And the disciples say unto him: Whence then should we have so many loaves in the desert, as to fill so great a multitude?

Mark 8:4 And his disciples answered him: From whence can any one fill them here with bread in the wilderness?

Mark 9:23 And Jesus saith to him: If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

Context
The Complaint of Moses
…12Have I conceived all this multitude, or begotten them, that thou shouldst say to me: Carry them in thy bosom as the nurse is wont to carry the little infant, and bear them into the land, for which thou hast sworn to their fathers? 13Whence should I have flesh to give to so great a multitude? They weep against me, saying: Give us flesh that we may eat.14I am not able alone to bear all this people, because it is too heavy for me.…
Cross References
John 6:5
When Jesus therefore had lifted up his eyes and seen that a very great multitude cometh to him, he said to Philip: Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?

Numbers 11:21
And Moses said: There are six hundred thousand footmen of this people, and sayest thou: I will give them flesh to eat a whole month?

Numbers 11:22
Shall then a multitude of sheep and oxen be killed, that it may suffice for their food? or shall the fishes of the sea be gathered together to fill them?

Numbers 11:12
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