And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD'S hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.
Ver. 23. And the Lord said unto Moses.] God bears with Moses here; which afterwards he did not, Num 20:12 because then he showed his distrust before the people. God will not pass by the scandalous practices of his own people without a sensible check.
Is the Lord's hand shortened.] Moses thought God had made an unadvised promise, and prays him to consider, that the people were so many thousand, and that the flocks and herds would not suffice them. But God answers here, that he is never nonplussed.