Exodus 16:13
Good News Translation
In the evening a large flock of quails flew in, enough to cover the camp, and in the morning there was dew all around the camp.

New Revised Standard Version
In the evening quails came up and covered the camp; and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.

Contemporary English Version
That evening a lot of quails came and landed everywhere in the camp, and the next morning dew covered the ground.

New American Bible
In the evening, quail came up and covered the camp. In the morning there was a layer of dew all about the camp,

Douay-Rheims Bible
So it came to pass in the evening, that quails coming up, covered the camp: and in the morning a dew lay round about the camp.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

So it came to pass in the evening, that quails coming up, covered the camp: and in the morning a dew lay round about the camp.

the quails.

Numbers 11:31-33 And a wind going out from the Lord, taking quails up beyond the sea brought them, and cast them into the camp for the space of one day's journey, on every side of the camp round about, and they flew in the air two cubits high above the ground. . . .

Psalm 78:27,28 And he rained upon them flesh as dust: and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea. . . .

Psalm 105:40 They asked, and the quail came: and he filled them with the bread of heaven.

the dew

Numbers 11:9 And when the dew fell in the night upon the camp, the manna also fell with it.

Context
Manna and Quail from Heaven
12I have heard the murmuring of the children of Israel, say to them: In the evening you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall have your fill of bread; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God. 13So it came to pass in the evening, that quails coming up, covered the camp: and in the morning a dew lay round about the camp.14And when it had covered the face of the earth, it appeared in the wilderness small, and as it were beaten with a pestle, like unto the hoar frost on the ground.…
Cross References
Numbers 11:9
And when the dew fell in the night upon the camp, the manna also fell with it.

Numbers 11:31
And a wind going out from the Lord, taking quails up beyond the sea brought them, and cast them into the camp for the space of one day's journey, on every side of the camp round about, and they flew in the air two cubits high above the ground.

Psalm 78:27
And he rained upon them flesh as dust: and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea.

Psalm 105:40
They asked, and the quail came: and he filled them with the bread of heaven.

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