Study it in the app“And the people rose up all that day and all the night and all the next day, and gathered the quails; the one who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them out for themselves around the camp.”
And the peopleוַ הָעָםrose upיָּקָםallכָּלthatהַהוּאdayהַיּוֹםand allוְכָלthe nightהַלַּיְלָהand allוְכֹלthe nextהַמָּחֳרָתday,יוֹםand gatheredוַיַּאַסְפוּthe quails;אֶת הַשְּׂלָוthe one who gathered leastהַמַּמְעִיטgatheredאָסַףtenעֲשָׂרָהhomers;חֳמָרִיםand they spread them outוַיִּשְׁטְחוּ שָׁטוֹחַfor themselvesלָהֶםaroundסְבִיבוֹתthe camp.הַמַּחֲנֶה
crowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appearsrise
To go from sitting or lying to standing, or to set out.
Where else “yakam” appearsday
The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
Where else “yom” appearsnight
Night.
Where else “layla” appearsnext day
The next day, tomorrow.
Where else “machorat” appearsgather
To bring together what was scattered, like the harvest.
Where else “yaasfu” appearsquail
Quail: small birds that travel in large flocks.
Where else “selav” appearsbe few, too small
Be few, be too small for something; make few, reduce.
Where else “mamit” appearsten
Ten.
Where else “asara” appearshomer
A large measure for grain.
Where else “chomarim” appearsspread out
Spread out, lay out on the ground.
Where else “yishtchu” appearsaround
In a circle or on every side of something: the camp, the city, the altar.
Where else “sevivot” appearscamp
A place where a group settles to live temporarily, with order and limits.
Where else “machane” appearsA homer equals ten ephahs (Ezekiel 45:11): ten homers are an enormous quantity, which can be understood as a sign of the greed with which they gathered.
31And a wind set out from YHWH and brought across quails from the sea and let them fall beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and about a day’s journey on that side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the ground.
32 · This verse (above)
33The meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, when the anger of YHWH burned against the people, and YHWH struck the people with a very great blow.
