Numbers 11:4
Good News Translation
There were foreigners traveling with the Israelites. They had a strong craving for meat, and even the Israelites themselves began to complain: "If only we could have some meat!

New Revised Standard Version
The rabble among them had a strong craving; and the Israelites also wept again, and said, “If only we had meat to eat!

Contemporary English Version
One day some foreigners among the Israelites became greedy for food, and even the Israelites themselves began moaning, "We don't have any meat!

New American Bible
The riffraff among them were so greedy for meat that even the Israelites lamented again, “If only we had meat for food!

Douay-Rheims Bible
For a mixt multitude of people, that came up with them, burned with desire, sitting and weeping, the children of Israel also being joined with them, and said: Who shall give us flesh to eat?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For a mixt multitude of people, that came up with them, burned with desire, sitting and weeping, the children of Israel also being joined with them, and said: Who shall give us flesh to eat?

the mixed

Exodus 12:38 And a mixed multitude, without number, went up also with them, sheep and herds, and beasts of divers kinds, exceeding many.

Leviticus 24:10,11 And behold there went out the son of a woman of Israel, whom she had of an Egyptian, among the children of Israel: and fell at words in the camp with a man of Israel. . . .

Nehemiah 13:3 And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated every stranger from Israel.

fell a lusting.

1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not seduced: Evil communications corrupt good manners.

wept again.

Psalm 78:18-20 And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their desires. . . .

Psalm 106:14 And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water.

Romans 13:14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ: and make not provision for the flesh in its concupiscences.

1 Corinthians 10:6 Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not covet evil things, as they also coveted.

Context
The Complaints of the People
3And he called the name of that place, The burning: for that the fire of the Lord had been kindled against them. 4For a mixt multitude of people, that came up with them, burned with desire, sitting and weeping, the children of Israel also being joined with them, and said: Who shall give us flesh to eat?5We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt free cost: the cucumbers come into our mind, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 10:6
Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not covet evil things, as they also coveted.

Exodus 12:38
And a mixed multitude, without number, went up also with them, sheep and herds, and beasts of divers kinds, exceeding many.

Exodus 16:3
And the children of Israel said to them: Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat over the fleshpots, and ate bread to the full: Why have you brought us into this desert, that you might destroy all the multitude with famine?

Numbers 14:22
But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ten times, and have not obeyed my voice,

Numbers 16:13
Is it a small matter to thee, that thou hast brought us out of a land that flowed with milk and honey, to kill us in the desert, except thou rule also like a lord over us?

Psalm 78:18
And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their desires.

Psalm 78:19
And they spoke ill of God: they said: Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

Psalm 78:20
Because he struck the rock, and the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed. Can he also give bread, or provide a table for his people?

Psalm 106:14
And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water.

Jeremiah 42:14
Saying: No, but we will go into the land of Egypt: where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor suffer hunger: and there we will dwell.

Numbers 11:3
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