Numbers 11:31
Good News Translation
Suddenly the LORD sent a wind that brought quails from the sea, flying three feet above the ground. They settled on the camp and all around it for miles and miles in every direction.

New Revised Standard Version
Then a wind went out from the LORD, and it brought quails 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, all around the camp, about two cubits deep on the ground.

Contemporary English Version
Some time later the LORD sent a strong wind that blew quails in from the sea until Israel's camp was completely surrounded with birds, piled up about a meter high for many kilometers in every direction.

New American Bible
There arose a wind from the LORD that drove in quail from the sea and left them all around the camp site, to a distance of a day’s journey and at a depth of two cubits upon the ground.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And a wind going out from the Lord, taking quails up beyond the sea brought them, and cast them into the camp for the space of one day's journey, on every side of the camp round about, and they flew in the air two cubits high above the ground.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And a wind going out from the Lord, taking quails up beyond the sea brought them, and cast them into the camp for the space of one day's journey, on every side of the camp round about, and they flew in the air two cubits high above the ground.

a wind

Exodus 10:13,19 And Moses stretched forth his rod upon the land of Egypt: and the Lord brought a burning wind all that day, and night; and when it was morning, the burning wind raised the locusts. . . .

Exodus 15:10 Thy wind blew and the sea covered them: they sunk as lead in the mighty waters.

Psalm 135:7 He bringeth up clouds from the end of the earth: he hath made lightnings for the rain. He bringeth forth winds out of his stores:

and brought

Exodus 16:13 So it came to pass in the evening, that quails coming up, covered the camp: and in the morning a dew lay round about the camp.

Psalm 78:26-29 He removed the south wind from heaven: and by his power brought in the southwest wind. . . .

Psalm 105:40 They asked, and the quail came: and he filled them with the bread of heaven.

quails.

Context
The Quail and the Plague
31And a wind going out from the Lord, taking quails up beyond the sea brought them, and cast them into the camp for the space of one day's journey, on every side of the camp round about, and they flew in the air two cubits high above the ground.32The people therefore rising up all that day, and night, and the next day, gathered together of quails, he that did least, ten cores: and they dried them round about the camp.…
Cross References
Exodus 16:13
So it came to pass in the evening, that quails coming up, covered the camp: and in the morning a dew lay round about the camp.

Numbers 11:30
And Moses returned, with the ancients of Israel, into the camp.

Psalm 78:26
He removed the south wind from heaven: and by his power brought in the southwest wind.

Psalm 105:40
They asked, and the quail came: and he filled them with the bread of heaven.

Psalm 106:15
And he gave them their request: and sent fulness into their souls.

Numbers 11:30
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