13And 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.
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And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.
The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: …
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. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-21)Now they begin to be provided for by the immediate hand of God. I. He makes them a feast, at night, of delicate fowl, feathered fowl (Ps. 78:27), therefore not locusts , as some think; quails, or pheasants, or some wild fowl, came up, and covered the camp, so tame that they might take up as many of them as they pleased. Note, God gives us of the good things of this life, not only for necessity, bu…
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