^12 (A)“I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ^(B)‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and ^(C)in the morning you shall be filled with bread. And you shall know that I am the Lord your God.’ ”

¹³ So it was that ^(D)quail came up at evening and covered the camp, and in the morning ^(E)the dew lay all around the camp.

³² And the people stayed up all that day, all night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail (he who gathered least gathered ten ^(A)homers); and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.

¹⁸ Then you shall say to the people, ^[a]‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept ^(A)in the hearing of the Lord, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.” Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you shall eat. ¹⁹ You shall eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days,