the First Week after Epiphany
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Psalms 78:27
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he rained meat on them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the seas;
Hee rained flesh also vpon them as dust, and feathered foule as the sand of the sea.
He rained meat on them like dust,and winged birds like the sand of the seas.
He rained also flesh on them as the dust; Winged birds as the sand of the seas.
He made quail fall like rain until they covered the ground. There were so many birds that they were like sand on the seashore.
He rained meat upon them like the dust, And winged birds (quail) like the sand of the seas.
He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, And winged birds as the sand of the seas:
and it brought birds that covered the ground, like sand on the beach.
and rained down meat on them like dust, birds flying thick as the sand on the seashore.
He caused flesh also to rain upon them as the dust, and winged fowl as the sand of the seas;
He rained flesh also vpon them as dust: and feathered soules like as the sand of the sea.
And he rained upon them flesh like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the seas.
He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, and winged fowl as the sand of the seas:
He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.
Then he rained meat on them like dust, even winged birds like the sand of the seas.
Yea, He rained flesh on them like dust, and winged birds as the sand of the seas.
He rained meat on them like dust. The birds were as many as the sand of the sea.
He rained down meat on them like dust, birds as numerous as the sand on the seashores.
He also rained meat on them like the dust, Feathered fowl like the sand of the seas;
He rained down meat as thick as dust— birds as plentiful as the sand on the seashore!
He sent meat down on them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the sea.
And rained upon them flesh as the dust, And, like the sand of the seas, birds of wing;
(77-27) And he rained upon them flesh as dust: and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea.
He rained flesh also upon them like dust, and feathered fowls like the sands of the sea:
and to his people he sent down birds, as many as the grains of sand on the shore;
When He rained meat upon them like the dust, Even winged fowl like the sand of the seas,
He rained fleshe vpon them as thycke as dust: and fethered foules like as the sande of the sea.
he rained flesh upon them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the seas;
And he rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowl as the sand of the seas,
And he reynede fleischis as dust on hem; and `he reinede volatils fethered, as the grauel of the see.
And He raineth on them flesh as dust, And as sand of the seas -- winged fowl,
He rained also flesh on them as the dust; Winged birds as the sand of the seas.
he rained flesh upon them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the seas;
He rained flesh also on them as the dust, And winged birds as the sand of the seas:
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
He sent down meat on them like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the sea,
He caused the east wynde to blowe vnder the heauen, and thorow his power he brought in the south wynde.
When He rained meat upon them like the dust, Even winged fowl like the sand of the seas,
Then He rained meat upon them like the dust,Even winged fowl like the sand of the seas,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
He rained: Exodus 16:12, Exodus 16:13, Numbers 11:18, Numbers 11:19, Numbers 11:32
feathered fowls: Heb. fowl of wing
Reciprocal: Genesis 41:49 - General Numbers 11:20 - and it 1 Corinthians 10:6 - lust
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He rained flesh also upon them as dust,.... By "flesh" is meant fowl, as the following clause shows; for there is flesh of birds, as well as of other creatures, see 1 Corinthians 15:39 and the quails which are here meant may be very fitly called flesh, since they are, for their size, a very plump, fat, and fleshy bird:
and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea; or "fowl of wing" h: winged fowls, so the Targum; fowl that flies; and therefore it was the more remarkable that these should be rained and fall, and be taken by the Israelites; and which fell in great numbers, as is signified by these phrases, the dust and the sand of the sea; for there fell enough to feed six hundred thousand men, beside women and children, for a month together; they lay in heaps, two cubits high, on one another, and everyone that gathered them brought in ten homers; see
Numbers 11:19, which is the history referred to; and quails are used to fly together in large bodies; and sometimes, as Pliny i relates, will light on ships at sea, and sink them with their numbers. Some think one sort of locusts is meant, which were used for food, and was very delicious food; and the circumstances of bringing them with an east or southeast wind, their falling in heaps, and being gathered in bushels, and spread about to be dried in the sun, seem to favour such a sense; Numbers 11:19- :,
Numbers 11:19- :,
Numbers 11:19- :,
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Numbers 11:19- :. The ancients interpret this mystically of the flesh of Christ, whose flesh is meat indeed, delicious food for faith, as the quails were a rich food; and as they were rained down from heaven, so Christ is the bread of life which came down from heaven, and the bread he gave for the life of the world was his flesh: and as these came up, however the first quails, in the evening, Exodus 16:13, so Christ came in the flesh, in the evening or end of the world, to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself; to which may be added, that these creatures sit upon their young, and cherish and protect them, as an hen her chickens k with which compare Matthew 23:37, but seeing the quails are never called spiritual meat, as the manna is, 1 Corinthians 10:3, but were given in wrath and judgment, they are rather an emblem of riches, or worldly goods, things given to carnal men; these are of God, as the quails were, and are by some persons enjoyed without care or trouble, as these were; their meat, as it is sometimes said, falls into their mouth, as these quails did into the mouths of the Israelites, as it were; and are in wrath, their blessings are cursed to them, and, while they have a great affluence of worldly things, have leanness in their souls, as the Israelites now had,
Psalms 106:15, moreover, as these were feathered or winged fowl, so riches have wings, and sometimes flee away, and are very uncertain things to trust to, Proverbs 23:5.
h עוף כנף "volucres alatas", Tigurine version, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius. i Hist. l. 10. c. 23. k Arist. de Hist. Animal. l. 9. c. 8.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He rained flesh also upon them as dust - The flesh of quails, Numbers 11:31. The word “rained” means that they seemed to come upon them like a copious shower. The word dust denotes their great abundance.
And feathered fowls - Margin, as in Hebrew, “fowl of wing.” This is a poetic expression, designed to give beauty to the description by the image of their fluttering wings.
Like as the sand of the sea - An expression also designed to denote their great numbers, Genesis 22:17; Genesis 32:12; Genesis 41:49; Joshua 11:4; 1 Samuel 13:5; Revelation 20:8.
