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Numbers 11:10
Then Moses heard the people of family after family weeping at the entrances to their tents, and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly, and Moses was also displeased.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses stands in the camp after the manna falls with the night dew, observing the Israelites weeping at their tent entrances while God’s anger burns and his own displeasure rises.
The words — The Hebrew בֹּכֶה (bo.Kheh) denotes the active, continuous weeping of the people, and לְ/מִשְׁפְּחֹתָיו (le./mish.pe.cho.Ta/v) specifies that this grief occurs clan by clan at each household threshold.
The thread — This pattern of divine anger kindled by communal complaint appears in Numbers 11:1 and is echoed in Psalms 78:21 where God’s wrath responds to Israel’s grumbling.
Why it lands — The text records Moses witnessing organized grief and shared divine wrath, requiring a reader to confront how collective discontent triggers both heavenly judgment and human frustration.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the Lord was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.
Cross-references
- Psalms 78:21 Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with wrath; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger flared against Israel,
- Numbers 11:1 Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.
- Numbers 12:3 Now Moses was a very humble man, more so than any man on the face of the earth.
- Numbers 14:1 Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.
- Numbers 16:27 So they moved away from the dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Meanwhile, Dathan and Abiram had come out and stood at the entrances to their tents with their wives and children and infants.
- Numbers 20:10 Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly in front of the rock, and Moses said to them, “Listen now, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?”
- Numbers 21:5 and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”
- Deuteronomy 32:22 For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.
- Psalms 78:59 On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.
- Psalms 106:25 They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.