You will eat it not for one or two days, nor for five or ten or twenty days,
We have here God's gracious answer to both the foregoing complaints, wherein his goodness takes occasion from man's badness to appear so much the more illustrious. I. Provision is made for the redress of the grievances Moses complains of. If he find the weight of government lie too heavy upon him, though he was a little too passionate in his remonstrance, yet he shall be...
Commenting on Numbers 11:16-23
Ye shall not eat one day,.... Only, as in Exo 16:12, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days; but even thirty days, a whole month, as in Num 11:20.
Num 11:18-20 Jehovah would also relieve the complaining of the people, and that in such a way that the murmurers should experience at the same time the holiness of His judgments. The people were to sanctify themselves for the next day, and were then to eat flesh (receive flesh to eat).
Commenting on Numbers 11:18-20