And the people rose all that day and all night and all the next day, and gathered the quail. Those who gathered least gathered ten homers. And they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.
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.
Commenting on Numbers 11:31-35
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...
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...