Numb xi. 34, 35.KIBEROTH-AVAH or Kiberoth-hattaavah, the Graves of Lust. One of the Incampments of the Israelites in the Wilderness was called by this Name, because when they desired of God Food for their Sustenance, declaring that they were tir’d with Manna, God sent them Quails in so great Quantity, that they had enough of them for several Days. But while the Meat was yet Ps. lxxviii. 30.in their Mouth, God smote them, and killed so great a Number of them, that the Place from thence was called the Graves of Lust1.
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Numb. xi. 34, 35. קברות התאוהKibaroth-Hattaavah, Sepulcra concupiscentiæ. ↩