A moment in scripture
Numbers 11:33
And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague.
The surrounding passage
- Numbers 11:31
And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day’s journey on this side, and as it were a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
- Numbers 11:32
And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
- Numbers 11:34
And he called the name of that place Kibroth–hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.
- Numbers 11:35
And the people journeyed from Kibroth–hattaavah unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.