Wisdom 11:13
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13 For when they heard that the cause of their own torments
was a benefit to these others, they recognized the Lord.
Wisdom 19:11-12
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11 And later they saw also a new kind of bird(A)
when, prompted by desire, they asked for pleasant foods;
12 For to appease them quail came to them from the sea.
Exodus 16:13
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13 In the evening, quail(A) came up and covered the camp. In the morning there was a layer of dew all about the camp,
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Numbers 11:31-32
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The Quail. 31 There arose a wind(A) from the Lord that drove in quail from the sea and left them all around the camp site, to a distance of a day’s journey and at a depth of two cubits upon the ground.[a] 32 (B)So all that day, all night, and all the next day the people set about to gather in the quail. Even the one who got the least gathered ten homers[b] of them. Then they spread them out all around the camp.
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- 11:31 The heaps of quail lying upon the ground all around the Israelites’ camp suggest the ambiguity of God’s response to the people’s lament for meat in v. 4 and foreshadow the plague which God will now bring upon Israel (v. 33). Their request had been nothing less than a rejection of what God has done for them (v. 20).
- 11:32 Homers: see note on Is 5:10. They spread them out: to cure by drying.
Psalm 105:40
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40 They asked and he brought them quail;
with bread from heaven he filled them.(A)
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