stood up] Or, rose up. Whereby is not alwayes meant an upright posture of the body, which was not sutable to this action; for the fowle was but two cubits high above the earth; so that they must rather stoope down, then rise up to take them; but by this word is sometimes noted a rising up from what was in doing before, and a ready addresse to some other action; so here. night, and all] The same men (though never so fleshly minded) could not endure so long labour; yet some might be so greedy, as to defraud themselves of their naturall rest, to be plentifully furnished for their lust; but it is like that when some were weary, others came in their stead, and so the gathering continued all the while. ten homers] Or heapes, for so the word is sometimes taken, as Exodus 8:14. G. pag. 74. spread them] As in their coming, so in their keeping there was an extraordinary providence of God; for if they were killed when they were spread round about the Campe, it was strange that they were preserved sweet, untill they were to be eaten; if kept alive in pens or cages, it was more strange, that they were supplyed with sufficient provision to nourish them; unlesse we say they were every day furnished with new store (as with Manna) except the Sabbath, Exodus 16:18, &c. which seemeth not to be so in this place.