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Psalm 78:27

He also rained meat on them as the dust, winged birds as the sand of the seas.

25Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.
26He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.
27He also rained meat on them as the dust, winged birds as the sand of the seas.
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Meat raining down like dust and birds like sea sand make the sheer scale of God’s provision hard to take in.

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Where else Scripture says this

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Exodus 16:12–13“I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with …Exodus records God’s promise that Israel would eat meat; the psalm recounts God supplying birds in abundance.
Genesis 41:49Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.Both passages compare abundant food to sea sand, describing quantities that stretch beyond an easy count.
Numbers 11:18–19“Say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, and you will eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, “Who will give …Numbers records God’s promise to give the people the meat they wanted; the psalm describes the abundance he supplied.
Numbers 11:32The people rose up all that day, and all of that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they …Both passages describe birds in great numbers, with the psalm emphasizing God’s provision and Numbers recounting the people’s gathering.
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Compare the sand imagery here and in Genesis 41:49

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Encouragement

The scale of this provision is hard to picture. The psalm traces it to God: he commanded the wind and brought food into Israel’s camp.

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