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Printed Caption:
A Plague
inflicted on Israel whilst eating the quails.
Numbers 11:31-34
And there went
forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails from the sea,
and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey
on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other
side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high
upon the face of the earth. And 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. And while the flesh was yet between
their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was
kindled against the people with a very great plague. And he
called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there
they buried the people that lusted. (KJV)
Figures
de la Bible (1728)
Illustrated by Gerard
Hoet (1648-1733), and others.
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