Psalms Chapter 78 verse 27 Holy Bible
He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, And winged birds as the sand of the seas:
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He sent down meat on them like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the sea,
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And he rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowl as the sand of the seas,
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He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
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He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
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He rained also flesh on them as the dust; Winged birds as the sand of the seas.
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And He raineth on them flesh as dust, And as sand of the seas -- winged fowl,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 27. - He rained flesh also upon them. With the expression, "rained flesh," comp. Exodus 16:4, "Behold, I will rain bread from heaven;" and see also Genesis 19:24 and Exodus 9:23. As dust; i.e. "as thick as dust" (Prayer book Version). The quails lay "as it were two cubits high" for the distance of a day's journey round about each encampment (see Numbers 11:31). And feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea. The commonest image of multiplicity (Genesis 22:17; Deuteronomy 33:19; Joshua 11:4; Judges 7:12, etc.).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(27) No doubt there is poetical hyperbole here, but for the enormous numbers of quails that are now caught, see the article quoted above.
