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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Kibroth-hattaavah
"The graves of craving." The people were sick of manna and demanded meat, and God sent quails in a huge flock. A plague broke out while they ate, and the dead were buried where they fell, so the camp was named for what they had wanted. Moses brought it up again years later when he listed the times they had provoked God.
"The graves of craving." The people were sick of manna and demanded meat, and God sent quails in a huge flock. A plague broke out while they ate, and the dead were buried where they fell, so the camp was named for what they had wanted. Moses brought it up again years later when he listed the times they had provoked God.
Kibroth-hattaavah, "the graves of craving," marks the wilderness camp where the Israelites, weary of manna, demanded meat and were sent a massive flock of quails by God. Their gluttony brought on a plague that killed many, and the dead were buried there and the place named for their craving (Numbers 11:31-34). It was one of the stations on Israel's route from Sinai toward Canaan, mentioned again in the itinerary of Numbers 33 and in Moses' later rebuke in Deuteronomy 9:22.
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- Numbers 11:34
- Numbers 11:35
- Numbers 33:16
- Numbers 33:17
- Deuteronomy 9:22
