Quail in the Camp

31 A wind sent by the Lord(A) came up and blew quail in from the sea; it dropped them all around the camp. They were flying three feet[a] off[b] the ground for about a day’s journey in every direction.(B) 32 The people were up all that day and night and all the next day gathering the quail—the one who took the least gathered sixty bushels[c]—and they spread them out all around the camp.[d](C)

33 While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the Lord’s anger burned(D) against the people, and the Lord struck them with a very severe plague.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 11:31 Lit two cubits
  2. 11:31 Or They were three feet deep on
  3. 11:32 Lit 10 homers
  4. 11:32 To dry or cure the meat; 2Sm 17:19; Ezk 26:5,14

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