The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah,† because there they buried the people who lusted.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Numbers 11:34 in context
Numbers 11:31–35
31
A wind from the LORD went out and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and a day’s journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the earth.
32
The people rose up all that day, and all of that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them all out for themselves around the camp.
33
While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the LORD’s anger burned against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.
34
Selected verse
The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah,† because there they buried the people who lusted.
35
From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth; and they stayed at Hazeroth.
Source notes
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- Kibroth Hattaavah means “graves of lust”
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