Numbers 11:18

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

As for the Israelites, I have heard them complaining about not having meat and about being better off in Egypt. So tell them to make themselves acceptable to me, because tomorrow they will have meat.

Cross References

Genesis 35:2

Jacob said to his family and to everyone else who was travelling with him: Get rid of your foreign gods! Then make yourselves acceptable to worship God and put on clean clothes.

Job 20:13

and swallow it slowly.

Job 20:23

and God will make them swallow his blazing anger.

Psalm 78:20

It's true God struck the rock and water gushed out like a river, but can he give his people bread and meat?”

Exodus 16:8

Then Moses continued, “You will know it is the LORD when he gives you meat each evening and more than enough bread each morning. He is really the one you are complaining about, not us—we are nobodies—but the LORD has heard your complaints.”

Exodus 19:10

Once more the LORD spoke to Moses: Go back and tell the people that today and tomorrow they must get themselves ready to meet me. They must wash their clothes

Exodus 19:15

He told them to be ready in three days and not to have sex in the meantime.

Exodus 19:22

Only the priests may come near me, and they must obey strict rules before I let them. If they don't, they will be punished.”

Numbers 11:1

One day the Israelites started complaining about their troubles. The LORD heard them and became so angry that he destroyed the outer edges of their camp with fire.

Numbers 11:19

In fact, they will have meat day after day for a whole month—not just a few days, or even ten or twenty. They turned against me and wanted to return to Egypt. Now they will eat meat until they get sick of it.

Acts 7:39

But our ancestors refused to obey Moses. They rejected him and wanted to go back to Egypt.

Joshua 7:13

Tell the people of Israel, “Tomorrow you will meet with the LORD your God, so make yourselves acceptable to worship him. The LORD says that you have taken things that should have been destroyed. You won't be able to stand up to your enemies until you get rid of those things.

Judges 21:2

After the war with Benjamin, the Israelites went to the place of worship at Bethel and sat there until sunset. They cried loudly and bitterly