Numbers 11:31-35
Lexham English Bible
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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- Numbers 11:32 Literally “arose”
- Numbers 11:32 HALOT 330, “a dry measure”
- Numbers 11:34 Hebrew “the graves of greediness”
- Numbers 11:34 Literally “craved”
- Numbers 11:35 Hebrew “the graves of greediness”
- Numbers 11:35 Hebrew “they were”
Numbers 11:31-35
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Quail in the Camp
31 A wind sent by the Lord(A) came up and blew quail in from the sea; it dropped them at the camp all around, three feet[a] off[b] the ground, 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 50 bushels[c]—and they spread them out all around the camp.[d](C)
33 While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the Lord’s anger burned(D) against the people, and the Lord struck them with a very severe plague.(E) 34 So they named that place Kibroth-hattaavah,[e] because there they buried the people who had craved the meat.
35 From Kibroth-hattaavah the people moved on to Hazeroth[f](F) and remained there.
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- Numbers 11:31 Lit two cubits
- Numbers 11:31 Or on, or above
- Numbers 11:32 Lit 10 homers
- Numbers 11:32 To dry or cure the meat; 2Sm 17:19; Ezk 26:5,14
- Numbers 11:34 = Graves of Craving
- Numbers 11:35 = settlements; Nm 12:16; 33:16-17
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