All that day and night, and all the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one gathered less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around the camp.
Parallel translations
- WEB The 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.
- KJV 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.
- NKJV 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 homers); and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.
- NASB And the people spent all that day, all night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quail (the one who gathered least gathered ten homers) and spread them out for themselves all around the camp.
- NLT So the people went out and caught quail all that day and throughout the night and all the next day, too. No one gathered less than fifty bushels! They spread the quail all around the camp to dry.
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Quick answer
The people gather quail greedily, day and night, in enormous amounts. Their frenzied hoarding reveals the depth of their craving.
Overview
For more than a day the people gather quail in huge quantities, spreading them around the camp. Their greed in collecting far more than needed exposes the disordered appetite behind their complaint. The scene of excess immediately precedes the plague, linking craving to judgment.
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Cross-references · 2
- Ezek 45:11The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure for both.
- Exod 16:36(Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)
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