Numbers 11:31-34

Quail and a Plague

31 Then a h wind from the Lord sprang up, and it brought quail from the sea and let them fall beside 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 1 above the ground. 32 And the people rose all that day and all night and all the next day, and gathered the quail. Those who gathered least gathered ten i homers. 2 And they spread them out for themselves all around the camp. 33 j While the meat was yet between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the Lord was kindled against the people, and k the Lord struck down the people with a very great plague. 34 Therefore the name of that place was called l Kibroth-hattaavah, 3 because there they buried the people who had the craving.

  1. Cross References
    Exodus 16:13
    In the evening quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning dew lay around the camp.
    Psalms 78:26 - 28
    He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens, and by his power he led out the south wind.
    Psalms 105:40
    They asked, and he brought quail, and gave them bread from heaven in abundance.
  2. Cross References
    Exodus 16:36
    (An omer is the tenth part of an ephah.)
    Ezekiel 45:11
    The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, the bath containing one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure.
  3. Cross References
    Psalms 78:30 - 31
    But before they had satisfied their craving, while the food was still in their mouths.
  4. Cross References
    Numbers 16:49
    Now those who died in the plague were 14,700, besides those who died in the affair of Korah.
  5. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 9:22
    At Taberah also, and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you provoked the Lord to wrath.
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