Numbers 11:13
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New International Version (©2011)
Where can I get meat for all these people? They keep wailing to me, 'Give us meat to eat!'

New Living Translation (©2007)
Where am I supposed to get meat for all these people? They keep whining to me, saying, 'Give us meat to eat!'

English Standard Version (©2001)
Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me and say, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me, saying, 'Give us meat that we may eat!'

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Where can I get meat to give all these people? For they are crying to me: 'Give us meat to eat!'

International Standard Version (©2012)
Where am I going to get meat to give this people? After all, they're crying in front of me, 'Give us meat to eat!'

NET Bible (©2006)
From where shall I get meat to give to this entire people, for they cry to me, 'Give us meat, that we may eat!'

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Where can I get meat for all these people? They keep crying for me to give them meat to eat.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
From where should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

American King James Version
From where should I have flesh to give to all this people? for they weep to me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

American Standard Version
Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

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.

Darby Bible Translation
Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh that we may eat!

English Revised Version
Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

Webster's Bible Translation
Whence should I have flesh to give to all this people? for they weep to me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

World English Bible
Where could I get meat to give to all this people? For they weep to me, saying, 'Give us meat, that we may eat.'

Young's Literal Translation
Whence have I flesh to give to all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give to us flesh, and we eat.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

11:10-15 The provocation was very great; yet Moses expressed himself otherwise than became him. He undervalued the honour God had put upon him. He magnified his own performances, while he had the Divine wisdom to direct him, and Almighty power to dispense rewards and punishments. He speaks distrustfully of the Divine grace. Had the work been much less he could not have gone through it in his own strength; but had it been much greater, through God strengthening him, he might have done it. Let us pray, Lord, lead us not into temptation.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people?.... 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.

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The Complaint of Moses
…12Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that you should say to me, Carry them in your bosom, as a nursing father bears the sucking child, to the land which you swore to their fathers? 13From where should I have flesh to give to all this people? for they weep to me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat. 14I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.

John 6:5 When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?"
Numbers 11:21 But Moses said, "Here I am among six hundred thousand men on foot, and you say, 'I will give them meat to eat for a whole month!'
Numbers 11:22 Would they have enough if flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? Would they have enough if all the fish in the sea were caught for them?"