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Numbers 11:31

29 But Moses replied, “Are you jealous on my account? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would place His Spirit on them!”

30 Then Moses returned to the camp, along with the elders of Israel.

Now a wind sent by the LORD came up, drove in quail from the sea, and brought them near the camp, about two cubits above the surface of the ground, for a day’s journey in every direction around the camp.

32 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.

33 But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a severe plague.

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BSB
Now a wind sent by the LORD came up, drove in quail from the sea, and brought them near the camp, about two cubits above the surface of the ground, for a day’s journey in every direction around the camp.
KJV
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.
WEB
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.
ASV
And there went forth a wind from Jehovah, 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, round about the camp, and about two cubits above the face of the earth.
DARBY
And there went forth a wind from Jehovah, and drove quails from the sea, and cast them about the camp, about a day's journey on this side, and about a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and about two cubits above the earth.
BLB
And a wind went out from YHWH, and it brought quail from the sea and left [them] near the camp, about a journey of a day on this side, and about a journey of a day on this side, all around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the ground.
ÅB
Da brøt det løs en storm fra Herren, og den førte vaktler inn fra havet og strødde dem over leiren, omkring en dagsreise på den ene kant og omkring en dagsreise på den andre kant rundt om leiren og omkring to alen over jordens overflate.
OTB
En vind gikk ut fra Herren og brakte vaktler fra havet, og lot dem falle ved siden av leiren, omtrent en dags reise på den ene siden og en dags reise på den andre siden, rundt leiren, omtrent to alen dypt på bakken.
B1930
Da brøt det løs en storm fra Herren, og den førte vaktler inn fra havet og strødde dem over leiren, omkring en dagsreise på den ene kant og omkring en dagsreise på den andre kant rundt om leiren og omkring to alen over jordens overflate.

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  • Exodus 16:13

    That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.

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  • Psalms 78:26–29

    He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might.

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  • Psalms 105:40

    They asked, and He brought quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

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  • Exodus 15:10

    But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

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  • Psalms 135:7

    He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

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  • Exodus 10:19

    And the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind that carried off the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust remained anywhere in Egypt.

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  • Exodus 10:13

    So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and throughout that day and night the LORD sent an east wind across the land. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts.

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