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Numbers 11:32 Explained in Context
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Verse 32. 32And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
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Role in This Section
Numbers 11:32 within “Quail Abundance Ends in a Severe Plague,” advances the complaint cycle through this speaker and consequence; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
Read It With
- Numbers 11:31–35
Read Numbers 11:32 with 11:31–35. It within “Quail Abundance Ends in a Severe Plague,” advances the complaint cycle through this speaker and consequence; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp. The complete unit establishes this contextual meaning: A wind brings quail in extraordinary quantity; the people gather for two days, and while meat remains in their teeth the LORD strikes a very great plague, giving the place the name Kibroth-hattaavah before Israel moves on.
Why It Needs Context
Numbers 11:32 within “Quail Abundance Ends in a Severe Plague,” advances the complaint cycle through this speaker and consequence; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp. Its responsible force depends on 11:31–35; isolated from “Quail Abundance Ends in a Severe Plague,” the verse's actor, action, reason, object, or transition could be mistaken for independent teaching.
Continue in Context
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Read Numbers 11:31–35 — Quail Abundance Ends in a Severe PlagueSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Numbers 11:31–35, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Numbers
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project
Open Scriptures, release 2.2, 2021
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, numbers, speeches, poems, legal clauses, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Num.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 11:31–35
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