Numbers 11:3
And he called the name of that place, The burning: for that the fire of the Lord had been kindled against them.
The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Vocavitque nomen loci illius, Incensio : eo quod incensus fuisset contra eos ignis Domini.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐκλήθη τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ τόπου ἐκείνου Ἐνπυρισμός, ὅτι ἐξεκαύθη ἐν αὐτοῖς πῦρ παρὰ Κυρίου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּקְרָ֛א שֵֽׁם הַמָּק֥וֹם הַה֖וּא תַּבְעֵרָ֑ה כִּֽי בָעֲרָ֥ה בָ֖ם אֵ֥שׁ יְהוָֽה
Haydock's commentary
The burning. Hebrew tabherah. (Challoner)
Calmet uses no reason for confounding this station with that mentioned [in] ver. 34.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
Tertullian On Fasting, Chapter V
At length, when a familiar people began to be chosen by God to Himself, and the restoration of man was able to be essayed, then all the laws and disciplines were imposed, even such as curtailed food; certain things being prohibited as unclean, in order that man, by observing a perpetual abstinence in certain particulars, might at last the more easily tolerate absolute fasts. For the first People had withal reproduced the first man’s crime, being found more prone to their belly than to God, when, plucked out from the harshness of Egyptian servitude “by the mighty hand and sublime arm” of God, they were seen to be its lord, destined to the “land flowing with milk and honey;” but forthwith, stumbled at the surrounding spectacle of an incopious desert sighing after the lost enjoyments of Egyptian satiety, they murmured against Moses and Aaron: “Would that we had been smitten to the heart by …