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Numbers 11

Numbers 11:32

The Quail and the Plague · Numbers 11:31–35
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Translations

Modern
All that day and night, and all the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one gathered less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around the camp.
Traditional
And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
Literal
And the people stayed up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quail. He who had least gathered ten homers. And they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.
Latin
Surgens ergo populus toto die illo, et nocte, ac die altero, congregavit coturnicum: qui parum, decem coros: et siccaverunt eas per gyrum castrorum.

Original

Hebrew
English
All that day and night, and all the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one gathered less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around the camp.

Notes

Numbers 11:31–35

God answered the people's complaints by sending a storm of quail and a plague. God had given quail with manna in Exodus 16:13. But here the quail showed God's judgment through an excessive abundance.

Numbers 11:1–35

This is one of many occasions in the wilderness when Israel was disobedient to the Lord.

Theme notes and profiles

Moses

Measurements

  • ten homers: About 62.4 bu (2,200 l)

Glossary

Deuteronomy, Book of Numbers, Book of Quail

Topics

Birds: Clean: Quail Blessing: Temporal, from God in Egypt: Quail Gluttony: General Scriptures Concerning God: Supplying Manna and Quail Journey of Israel Through The Desert: To Kibrothhattaavah: Quails Sent for a Month Kibroth-Hattaavah: A Station where the Israelites Were Miraculously Fed with Quails Measure: A Homer, About Eleven Bushels, Equal to a Cor or Ten Ephahs Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena: Phenomena of That Brought the Quails Prayer: Answered: Moses, Concerning the Complaint of the Israelites for Meat Quail: The Miracle of, at Kibroth-Hattaavah Sanitation: Gluttony, Disease Resulting From Trouble: Food