Numbers 11:32

11:32 And the people stayed up ¹  all that day, all that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail. The one who gathered the least gathered ten homers, ²  and they spread them out ³  for themselves all around the camp.

Numbers 14:14

14:14 then they will tell it to the inhabitants ⁴  of this land. They have heard that you, Lord, are among this people, that you, Lord, are seen face to face, ⁵  that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.

Numbers 22:20

22:20 God came to Balaam that night, and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, get up and go with them; but the word that I will say to you, that you must do.”

¹ tn Heb “rose up, stood up.”

² sn This is about two thousand liters.

³ tn The verb (a preterite) is followed by the infinitive absolute of the same root, to emphasize the action of spreading out the quail. Although it is hard to translate the expression, it indicates that they spread these quail out all over the area. The vision of them spread all over was evidence of God’s abundant provision for their needs.

⁴ tn The singular participle is to be taken here as a collective, representing all the inhabitants of the land.

⁵ tn “Face to face” is literally “eye to eye.” It only occurs elsewhere in Isa 52:8. This expresses the closest communication possible.