the quails: The Latin selav:, Chaldee selaiv:, Syriac and Arabic selwa:, is without doubt the quail, so the LXX render it ορτυγομητρα:, a large kind of quail. Josephus, ορτυξ:, Ethopic, ferferat:, and Vulgate, coturnices:, quails, with which agree Philo and the Rabbins. The quail is a bird of the gallinaceous: kind, somewhat less than a pigeon, but larger than a sparrow. Hasselquist describes the quail of the larger kind as very much resembling the red partridge, but not larger than the turtle dove; found in Judea as well as in the deserts of Arabia Petrζa: and Egypt; and affording a most agreeable and delicate dish. Numbers 11:31-33; Psalms 78:27-28, Psalms 105:40
the dew: Numbers 11:9