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The [a]rabble among them [who followed Israel from Egypt] had greedy desires [for familiar and delicious food], and the Israelites wept again and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 11:4 A unique word found only here in the OT. It refers to the mixed multitude of non-Israelites who joined the exodus.

11 your little ones, your wives, and the stranger (resident alien, foreigner) who is in your camps, from [a]the one who chops and gathers your firewood to the one who draws your water—

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 29:11 This probably refers to a permanent slave population (Josh 9:27).

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