Matthew Poole and continuators on Numbers 11:21

21 And Moses said, The people amongst whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen , and thou hast said, I will give them flesh that they may eat a whole month.

Fit for war, Exod. 12. 37. besides women, children, &c. That Moses speaks this as doubting or distrusting Gods words is evident enough from ver. 22, 23. And that Moses was not remarkably punished for this as he was afterward for the same sin Numb. 20. next to Gods good pleasure may be imputed to the different circumstances of this and that sin: this was the first great offence of this kind, and therefore more easily passed by, that was after warning and against more light and experience. This seems to have been spoken secretly in Moses his breast: that openly and publickly before the people, and to their scandal, and therefore it was fit to be openly and severely punished to prevent the contagion of that example.

Marginal references: Exod. 3[illegible: 1+ letters]. [illegible: 1 word] chap. 1. 45.