Numbers 11:32 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bible Comments

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.

Ver. 32. And they spread them.] They fed without fear, Jdg 1:12 though foretold they should pay dear for these murdering morsels; Num 11:20 that which they ate being sauced, and that which they drank being spiced, with the bitter wrath of God. Job 20:23

They gathered the quails.] Which they might the more easily do, if that be true which some a write, that the Arabian Gulf breedeth great store of quails, which fly low usually, so as they may easily be taken up with one's hand.

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Numbers 11:32

32 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.