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ENCYCLOPBDIA BIBLICA
QUAIL (iyw, irrsw. ~ r i+v, . M=F;
MHT~A ;l ~ohrnix). Mentioned in EV in Ex. 16x3
Nu. I13~f. Pr. 105+a Wird. 161 191zt; cp 113 qly, Ps.
78~~. That the quail, not the sand-grouse (?) or
the locurt (Hasselquist's alternatives, Traueir, 443) or
the ciane (Dean Stanley and H. S. Palmer, see
p 2, note 2) IS meant, is generally recognised.
1. Identification. ic
Erhmun.lolaor, the c,
him a onail to :
OPTY~O-
Rrl sirn.lq )Sg)., There 'is no trai;; however, of r6e sacred
charaster of thli brrd among the Arabians or the Hebrews.
T ~ C Cof~mix comrnunir or C. doctyli~onons of omithologirts
is well-known in the Sinaitic peninsula, where
it migrating riorthrvard in spring, in immense
flight5. Tristram found them in the Jordan valley
(Land of ~rroel, 460). They arrive in Palestine in
March and April-though a few remain there during
the ~ i n t ~ the ~ way a n to their breeding-placer in the
plains and cornfieldr of the upper country. Even these
flocks are raid to be surp;urred in numbers by the
autumn flight u'hen they return 5. to their winterquarters.
The quail flies very low, which Dillmann
to explain the important elauje at the end
of Su. lllr (but see $ 2). It is soon fatigued, and
hence fails an easy prey to man. 16o.ow have been
captured in P season at Capri, where their plump flesh
ir esteemed a ddicucy, us indeed it is all along the
shores of the Mediterranean. They were salted and
stored as food by the ancient Egyptians (Herod. 277).
A. E. 5.-4. A. C.
There are two references to a supply of quailr for the
food of the lrraeliter-viz., in Ex. 161~ f (scene, the
wilderness of Sin, on the way to Sinai),
2. The quails and in Nu. 11 rfl-23 jl.3' (scene. Kibroth-
Of the hattaavah. after the departure from Sinai).
Wmderings. The former be1ones - to P. He ha5 iurt
made Mores nnd i\zron tell the Israelites that in the
evening they shall know that Yahwk has brought them
out of Egypt, and that in the morning they shall see
yahw&'s glory (w. 6 f ). The evening event is the
arrival of the quails: the morning event is the lighting
down of the manna. The redactor has omitted P'r
account of the fall of the manna. the passage from 'the
dew lay round' to 'has given you to eat' being J's (see
1 '.P,,,L".>~ ,,*.I. , ~ C > , C C I ~ t.ve I. .