2 Instead of this punishment, you, giving benefits to your people, prepared quails for food, a delicacy to satisfy the desire of their appetite, (WEB) 3 to the end that your enemies, desiring food, might for the hideousness of the creatures sent among them, loathe even the necessary appetite; but these, your people, having for a short time suffered lack, might even partake of delicacies. (WEB) 4 For it was necessary that inescapable lack should come upon those oppressors, but that to these it should only be showed how their enemies were tormented. (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 16:2–4
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Wisdom of Solomon 11:4–6
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2 Esdras 8:58–60
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Wisdom of Solomon 16:8–10
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Wisdom of Solomon 12:19–21
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Wisdom of Solomon 12:7–9
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2 Esdras 16:18–20
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