SEV Biblia, Chapter 11:21
Entonces dijo Moisés: Seiscientos mil de a pie es el pueblo en medio del cual yo estoy; y tú dices: ¡Les daré carne, y comerán el tiempo de un mes!
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 21. 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, ( 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, ( 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 16-23 - Moses is to choose such as he knew to be elders, that is, wise an experienced men. God promises to qualify them. If they were not foun fit for the employ, they should be made fit. Even the discontente people shall be gratified too, that every mouth may be stopped. Se here, I. The vanity of all the delights of sense; they will cloy, but they will not satisfy. Spiritual pleasures alone will satisfy and last As the world passes away, so do the lusts of it. 2. What brutish sin gluttony and drunkenness are! they make that to hurt the body whic should be its health. Moses objects. Even true and great believer sometimes find it hard to trust God under the discouragements of secon causes, and against hope to believe in hope. God here brings Moses to this point, The Lord God is Almighty; and puts the proof upon the issue, Thou shalt see whether my word shall come to pass or not. If he speaks, it is done.
Original Hebrew
ויאמר 559 משׁה 4872 שׁשׁ 8337 מאות 3967 אלף 505 רגלי 7273 העם 5971 אשׁר 834 אנכי 595 בקרבו 7130 ואתה 859 אמרת 559 בשׂר 1320 אתן 5414 להם ואכלו 398 חדשׁ 2320 ימים׃ 3117
