Numbers 11:32 (BSB)

All that day and night, and all the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one gathered less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around the camp.

From Numbers 11. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 11:32

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 11:31-35: God, having performed his promise to Moses by giving him assessors in the government, thereby proving the power he has over the spirits of men by his Spirit, he here performs his promise to the people by giving them flesh, proving thereby his power over the inferior creatures and his dominion in the kingdom of nature. Observe, 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 11:32: And the people stood up all that day,.... The day on which they fell in the morning: and all that night; the night following: and all the next day; after that, even the space of thirty six hours: and they gathered the quails; not took them flying, as the Jewish writers suggest, before observed, but from the earth where they fell, in order to lay...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Numbers 11:32: people stood up--rose up in eager haste--some at one time, others at another; some, perhaps through avidity, both day and night. ten homers--ten asses' loads; or, "homers" may be used indefinitely (as in Exo 8:14; Jdg 15:16); and "ten" for many: so that the phrase "ten homers" is equivalent to "great heaps." The collectors were probably one or two from each family; and, being distrustful...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Numbers 11:32: 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. (s) Of Homer, read also it signifies a heap, as in .