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30 Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.

Quail and a Plague From the Lord

31 A wind sent out from the Lord brought quail in from the sea. The wind scattered them throughout the camp (and about a day’s journey in any direction around the camp) about three feet deep[a] on the ground. 32 All that day, all that night, and all the next day, the people got up and gathered the quail. No one gathered fewer than sixty bushels.[b] They spread them out around the camp.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 11:31 Literally two cubits
  2. Numbers 11:32 Literally ten homers. One homer is about six bushels or fifty-six gallons.