Numbers 11:31

A wind from the LORD went out and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by 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 above the surface of the earth.

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In The King James Version

And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day’s journey on this side, and as it were a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.

In Context

30Moses went into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.

32The people rose up all that day, and all of that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them all out for themselves around the camp.

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Cross References

Exodus 10:13Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

Exodus 15:10You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Psalms 78:26He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.

Psalms 105:40They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 11:25-31

God Promises the People Flesh; The Case of Eldad and Medad. ( b. c. 1490.) 24 And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the Lord , and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle. 25 And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease. 26 But there remained two of the men in the… Read the whole commentary →

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