John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 11:21

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Moses said, etc.] By way of objection to what God had promised, distrusting his power to perform: the people amongst whom I [am]; among whom he dwelt, 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, (<021237>Exodus 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, (<041101>Numbers 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.

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