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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”

Quails Come to the Camp

31 Just then, a wind burst forth from the Lord, who brought quails from the sea and spread them all around the camp, about a day’s journey in each direction, completely encircling the camp about two cubits[a] deep on top of the ground! 32 The people stayed up all that day, all that night, and all through the next day, gathering quails. The one who gathered least gathered enough to fill ten omers,[b] as they spread out all around the camp. 33 But even as they were chewing the meat and before they had swallowed it, the Lord became very angry with the people and struck them with a disastrous plague. 34 That’s why the place was named Kibroth-hattaavah,[c] because they buried the people there who had an insatiable appetite for meat.[d] 35 Later, the people left Kibroth-hattaavah for Hazeroth and camped there.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 11:31 I.e. about three feet; a cubit was about eighteen inches
  2. Numbers 11:32 I.e. in dry capacity about two and a half gallons by volume
  3. Numbers 11:34 The Heb. name means Graves of Desire
  4. Numbers 11:34 Lit. who had great cravings