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30 Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.

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 a metre[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 two thousand two hundred litres[c] – and they spread them out all around the camp.[d](C)

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Footnotes

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