Wisdom 19:12
New Revised Standard Version
Others had refused to receive strangers when they came to them, but these made slaves of guests who were their benefactors.

Contemporary English Version
by sending quails from the direction of the Mediterranean Sea.

New American Bible
For those others did not receive unfamiliar visitors, but these were enslaving beneficent guests.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For to satisfy their desire, the quail came up to them from the sea: and punishments came upon the sinners, not without foregoing signs by the force of thunders: for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness.

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For to satisfy their desire, the quail came up to them from the sea: and punishments came upon the sinners, not without foregoing signs by the force of thunders: for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness.

Wisdom 19:10
For they were yet mindful of those things which had been done in the time of their sojourning, how the ground brought forth flies instead of cattle, and how the river cast up a multitude of frogs instead of fishes.

Wisdom 19:11
And at length they saw a new generation of birds, when being led by their appetite, they asked for delicate meats.

Wisdom 19:13
For they exercised a more detestable inhospitality than any: others indeed received not strangers unknown to them, but these brought their guests into bondage that had deserved well of them.

Wisdom 19:14
And not only so, but in another respect also they were worse: for the others against their will received the strangers.

Context
Wisdom 19
11And at length they saw a new generation of birds, when being led by their appetite, they asked for delicate meats. 12For to satisfy their desire, the quail came up to them from the sea: and punishments came upon the sinners, not without foregoing signs by the force of thunders: for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness. 13For they exercised a more detestable inhospitality than any: others indeed received not strangers unknown to them, but these brought their guests into bondage that had deserved well of them.…
Cross References
Wisdom 19:10
For they were yet mindful of those things which had been done in the time of their sojourning, how the ground brought forth flies instead of cattle, and how the river cast up a multitude of frogs instead of fishes.

Wisdom 19:11
And at length they saw a new generation of birds, when being led by their appetite, they asked for delicate meats.

Wisdom 19:13
For they exercised a more detestable inhospitality than any: others indeed received not strangers unknown to them, but these brought their guests into bondage that had deserved well of them.

Wisdom 19:14
And not only so, but in another respect also they were worse: for the others against their will received the strangers.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 19:11
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