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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Numbers 11:32 - 11:32
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people stood up - rose up in eager haste - some at one time, others at another; some, perhaps through avidity, both day and night.
ten homers - ten asses’ loads; or, “homers” may be used indefinitely (as in Exo 8:14; Jdg 15:16); and “ten” for many: so that the phrase “ten homers” is equivalent to “great heaps.” The collectors were probably one or two from each family; and, being distrustful of God’s goodness, they gathered not for immediate consumption only, but for future use. In eastern and southern seas, innumerable quails are often seen, which, when weary, fall down, covering every spot on the deck and rigging of vessels; and in Egypt they come in such myriads that the people knock them down with sticks.
spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp - salted and dried them for future use, by the simple process to which they had been accustomed in Egypt.