The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us flesh to eat?
⛓ Read Numbers 11 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'The rabble had a strong craving... who will give us meat to eat?' grounds 'we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted' (v.6). The verb epethymēsan echoes the craving narrative; coherence with the wilderness-craving judgment.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Whose god is the belly' may echo the wilderness craving where Israel's 'lust' for food provokes judgment, a type of appetite-driven apostasy. Faint thematic figure of the rebellious 'belly.'
Low confidence