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let them fall by the camp, as it were a clay'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 aU 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." The facts 



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in these two narratives, to which I would wish to draw 

 attention, are : the season of the year at which the 

 occurrence took place, namely, in the first month of the 

 Jewish year, shortly after the Passover ; the precise time, 

 in the night ; the vast number of which the flocks were 

 composed ; that they came from the sea ; and that they fell 

 as if exhausted with their long flight. In both instances, 

 the miracle consisted in the fact that the coming of a 



