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

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)

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 11:31 Lit two cubits
  2. Numbers 11:31 Or on, or above
  3. Numbers 11:32 Lit 10 homers
  4. Numbers 11:32 To dry or cure the meat; 2Sm 17:19; Ezk 26:5,14

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