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Quail and a Plague From the Lord

31 A wind sent out from the Lord brought quail in from the sea. The wind scattered them throughout the camp (and about a day’s journey in any direction around the camp) about three feet deep[a] on the ground.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 11:31 Literally two cubits

32 All that day, all that night, and all the next day, the people got up and gathered the quail. No one gathered fewer than sixty bushels.[a] They spread them out around the camp.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 11:32 Literally ten homers. One homer is about six bushels or fifty-six gallons.

26 He sent out the east wind from the heavens,
and he led out the south wind by his power.
27 Then he rained meat down on them like dust,
and flying birds like sand on the seashore.
28 He made the birds fall down inside their camp,
    all around their dwellings.

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