Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on Numbers 11:31

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a wind: Exo 10:13, Exo 10:19, Exo 15:10; Psa 135:7 and brought: Exo 16:13; Psa 78:26-29, Psa 105:40 quails: That the word selav means the quail, we have already had occasion to observe; to which we subjoin the authority of Mr. Maundrell, who visited Naplosa (the ancient Sichem), where the Samaritans live. Mr. Maundrell asked their chief priest what sort of animal he took the selav to be. He answered, they were a sort of fowls; and, by the description Mr. Maundrell perceived he meant the same kind with our quails. a day's journey: Heb. the way of a day and as it were two cubits: That is, as the Vulgate renders, Volabantque in aere duobus cubitis altitudine super terram, "and they flew in the air, at the height of two cubits above the ground. Numbers 11:32

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