Numbers 11:19
17 And I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put that Spirit on them. They will help you bear the burden of the people, so that you do not have to bear it by yourself.
18 And say to the people: Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, because you have cried out in the hearing of the LORD, saying: ‘Who will feed us meat? For we were better off in Egypt!’ Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat.
You will eat it not for one or two days, nor for five or ten or twenty days,
20 but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and makes you nauseous—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have cried out before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”
21 But Moses replied, “Here I am among 600,000 men on foot, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You will eat it not for one or two days, nor for five or ten or twenty days,
- KJV
- Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;
- WEB
- You will not eat just one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days,
- ASV
- Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days,
- DARBY
- Not one day shall ye eat, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;
- BLB
- You⁺ shall not eat one day, and not [two] days, and not five days, and not ten days, and not twenty days,
- ÅB
- Ikke bare én dag skal dere spise av det, og ikke to dager og ikke fem dager og ikke tyve dager,
- OTB
- Dere skal spise det ikke bare i én dag, eller to dager, eller fem, ti, eller tjue dager,
- B1930
- Ikke bare én dag skal I ete av det, og ikke to dager og ikke fem dager og ikke tyve dager,