Numbers 11:13

13 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!'

Numbers 11:13 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 11:13

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

Numbers 11:13 In-Context

11 So Moses said to the Lord, "Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?

12 Did I conceive all this people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, "Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a sucking child,' to the land that you promised on oath to their ancestors?

13 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!'

14 I am not able to carry all this people alone, for they are too heavy for me.

15 If this is the way you are going to treat me, put me to death at once—if I have found favor in your sight—and do not let me see my misery."