32 All that day and night and all the next day the people went out and gathered quail. No one gathered less than ten homers.[a] Then they spread them out all around the camp. 33 But while the meat was still between their teeth and before it could be consumed, the anger of the Lord burned against the people, and he struck them with a severe plague. 34 Therefore the place was named Kibroth Hattaavah,[b] because there they buried the people who had craved other food.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 11:32 That is, possibly about 1.6 metric tons
  2. Numbers 11:34 Kibroth Hattaavah means graves of craving.