What is the context?
The people soon forget God’s works, crave what they demand, and test Him. The granting of the request is followed by wasting disease.
The retelling then recalls envy of Moses and Aaron and the judgment on Dathan and Abiram. Rebellion reaches both provision and appointed leadership.
These particular episodes have their own stated explanation. They do not establish that every sick person is greedy or every challenge to a later leader is rebellion against God.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley reads older leanness bodily and Aaron’s holiness through priestly consecration; the BSB explicitly names wasting disease.
What is our position?
We don't have a position on this passage yet. When our study reaches a conclusion the text supports, it will appear here.
Where can I study this further?
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