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The Lord Sends Quail

31 Now a wind from the Lord started up, and it swept quail from the sea and let them fall beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and a day’s journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits[a] above the ground. 32 And the people stayed up all that day, all night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail. Those who gathered least gathered ten homers.[b] And they spread them out for themselves all around the camp. 33 While the meat was between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the Lord burned against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great slaughter.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 11:31 About 3 feet, or 90 centimeters.
  2. Numbers 11:32 Likely about 1¾ tons, or 1.6 metric tons.