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The Quail

31 Then a wind set out from Yahweh, and it drove quails from the west, and he spread them out on the camp about a day’s journey on one side and about a day’s journey on the other, all around the camp, about two cubits on the surface of the land. 32 And so the people worked[a] all day and all night and all the next day, and they gathered the quail (the least of the ones collecting gathered ten homers).[b] 33 While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was consumed, Yahweh was angry with the people, and Yahweh struck a very great plague among the people. 34 And he called the name of that place Kibroth Hattaavah[c] because they buried the people that were greedy.[d] 35 From Kibroth Hattaavah[e] the people set out to Hazeroth; and they stayed[f] in Hazeroth.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 11:32 Literally “arose”
  2. Numbers 11:32 HALOT 330, “a dry measure”
  3. Numbers 11:34 Hebrew “the graves of greediness”
  4. Numbers 11:34 Literally “craved”
  5. Numbers 11:35 Hebrew “the graves of greediness”
  6. Numbers 11:35 Hebrew “they were”

31 A wind from the Lord blew up and brought quails from the sea. It let them fall by the camp, about a day’s journey all around the camp and about three feet deep on the ground. 32 Then the people arose and gathered the quail all that day, all night, and all the next day. The least collected was ten homers,[a] and they laid them out around the camp. 33 While the meat was still between their teeth and not yet consumed, the Lord’s anger blazed against the people. The Lord struck the people with a very great punishment. 34 The name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah,[b] because there they buried the people who had the craving.

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35 From Kibroth-hattaavah the people marched to Hazeroth.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 11:32 Five hundred gallons; one homer is two hundred quarts.
  2. Numbers 11:34 Or graves of craving