A wind sent by the LORD came up and blew quail in from the sea; it dropped them all around the camp. They were flying three feet off the ground for about a day’s journey in every direction.The people were up all that day and night and all the next day gathering the quail— the one who took the least gathered sixty bushels— and they spread them out all around the camp.While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the LORD’s anger burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a very severe plague.So they named that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved the meat.
The people ate and were completely satisfied, for he gave them what they craved.Before they had turned from what they craved, while the food was still in their mouths,God’s anger flared up against them, and he killed some of their best men. He struck down Israel’s fit young men.
From the ends of the earth we hear songs: The Splendor of the Righteous One. But I said,“ I waste away! I waste away! Woe is me.” The treacherous act treacherously; the treacherous deal very treacherously.