Exodus 16:13
That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.
And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.
In the evening, quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.
And it came to pass at even, that the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the camp.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- the quails
- The Hebrew {selav,} Chaldee {selaiv,} Syriac and Arabic {selwa,} is without doubt the quail: so the LXX. render it [ortygométre,] a large kind of quail. Josephus, [ortyx,] Ethopic, {ferferat,} and Vulgate, {coturnices,} quails, with which agree Philo and the Rabbins. The quail is a bird of the gallinaceous kind, somewhat less than a pigeon, but larger than a sparrow. Hasselquist describes the quail of the larger kind as very much resembling the red partridge, but not larger than the turtle dove; found in Judea as well as in the deserts of Arabia Petraæ and Egypt; and affording a most agreeable and delicate dish.
- Numbers 11:31–33; Psalm 78:27, 28; Psalm 105:40
- the dew
- Numbers 11:9