Numbers 11:21

WEB

Moses said, "The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, 'I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.'

KJV

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.

Commentary

And Moses said,.... By way of objection to what God had promised, distrusting his power to perform: the people amongst whom I am; among whom he dwe lt, of whom he was a part, and over whom he was a ruler: are six hundred thousand footmen; that were able to travel on foot, and were fit for war: this was the number of them when they came out of Egypt, Exo 12:37 ; they amounted in their last numbering to 3,550 more, which lesser number is here omitted, as Aben Ezra and Jarchi observe, and only the round number given: some say that all above the six hundred thousand were destroyed by the fire at Taberah, Num 11:1 , and thou hast said, one will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month; this Moses could not tell how to credit.