Quail and a Plague
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Now a m wind went out from the LORD, and it brought quail from the sea and left them fluttering near the camp, about a day's journey on this side and about a day's journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the ground.
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And the people stayed up all that day, all night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail (he who gathered least gathered ten n homers); and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.
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But while the o meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was aroused against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.
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So he called the name of that place Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had yielded to craving.
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p From Kibroth Hattaavah the people moved to Hazeroth, and camped at Hazeroth.
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Cross References
Exodus 16:13
So it was that quails came up at evening and covered the camp, and in the morning the dew lay all around the camp.
Psalms 78:26 - 28
He caused an east wind to blow in the heavens; And by His power He brought in the south wind.
Psalms 105:40
The people asked, and He brought quail, And satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
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Cross References
Exodus 16:36
Now an omer is one-tenth of an ephah.
Ezekiel 45:11
The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, so that the bath contains one-tenth of a homer, and the ephah one-tenth of a homer; their measure shall be according to the homer.
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Cross References
Psalms 78:29 - 31
So they ate and were well filled, For He gave them their own desire.
Psalms 106:15
And He gave them their request, But sent leanness into their soul.
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Cross References
Numbers 33:17
They departed from Kibroth Hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.
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