Parallel Verses New International Version You will not eat it for just one day, or two days, or five, ten or twenty days,
English Standard Version You shall not eat just one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days,
New American Standard Bible 'You shall eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days,
King James Bible Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;
Holman Christian Standard Bible You will eat, not for one day, or two days, or five days, or 10 days, or 20 days,
International Standard Version not only for a day, or for two days, or for five days, or for ten days, or for 20 days,
American Standard Version Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days,
Douay-Rheims Bible Not for one day, nor two, nor five, nor ten, no nor for twenty.
Darby Bible Translation Not one day shall ye eat, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;
Young's Literal Translation Ye do not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days; --
Cross References Numbers 11:18 And say you to the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and you shall eat flesh: for you have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and you shall eat.
Numbers 11:20 But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome to you: because that you have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
Psalm 78:29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
Jump to Previous Eat Ten TwentyJump to Next Eat Ten TwentyCommentaries 11:16-23 Moses is to choose such as he knew to be elders, that is, wise and experienced men. God promises to qualify them. If they were not found fit for the employ, they should be made fit. Even the discontented people shall be gratified too, that every mouth may be stopped. See here, I. The vanity of all the delights of sense; they will cloy, but they will not satisfy. Spiritual pleasures alone will satisfy and last. As the world passes away, so do the lusts of it. 2. What brutish sins gluttony and drunkenness are! they make that to hurt the body which should be its health. Moses objects. Even true and great believers sometimes find it hard to trust God under the discouragements of second causes, and against hope to believe in hope. God here brings Moses to this point, The Lord God is Almighty; and puts the proof upon the issue, Thou shalt see whether my word shall come to pass or not. If he speaks, it is done.
18-20. say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow, and ye shall eat flesh—that is, "prepare yourselves," by repentance and submission, to receive to-morrow the flesh you clamor for. But it is evident that the tenor of the language implied a severe rebuke and that the blessing promised would prove a curse. |
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