Numbers 11:21 - Easy To Read Version

²¹ Moses said, “Lord, there are 600,000 men walking around here. And you say, ‘I will give them enough meat to eat for a whole month!’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ But Moses said, The people among whom I am are 600,000 footmen [besides all the women and children], and You have said, I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month!

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.

Common English Bible

²¹ Moses said, “The people I’m with are six hundred thousand on foot and you’re saying, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ And Moses said: "There are six hundred thousand footmen of this people, and yet you say, 'I will give them flesh to eat for a whole month.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ And Moses said: There are six hundred thousand footmen of this people, and sayest thou: I will give them flesh to eat a whole month?

Numbers 11:21 Cross References

Genesis 12:2

I will build a great nation from you. I will bless you and make your name famous. People will use your name to bless other people.

Exodus 12:37

The people of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth. There were about 600,000 men. This does not include the children.

Exodus 38:26

All the men 20 years old or older were counted. There were 603,550 men, and each man had to pay a tax of 1 beqa [445] of silver. (Using the official measure, a beqa is 1Ú2 shekel. [446])

Numbers 1:46

The total number of men counted was 603,550 men.

Numbers 11:13

I don’t have enough meat for all these people! And they continue complaining to me. They say, ‘Give us meat to eat!’

Numbers 11:20

You will eat that meat for a whole month. You will eat the meat until you are sick of it. This will happen to you because you complained against the Lord. The Lord lives among you and knows what you need. But you cried and complained to him! You said, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”

Numbers 11:22

If we were to kill all of the sheep and cattle, then that would still not be enough to feed this many people for a month. And if we caught all the fish in the sea, it would not be enough for them!”

Numbers 2:32

So those were the people of Israel. They were counted by families. The total number of Israelite men in the camps, counted by groups, [25] is 603,550.

Numbers 26:51

So the total number of men of Israel was 601,730.