Quails, Snails and Manna

There’s a great joke about the head of an Abbey who goes down into the deepest cellars to check the translation of his monks against the most ancient manuscripts. After several days there is a howling and wailing which lasts for ages. Eventually the Abbot stumbles into the library and says, “God said celebrate, not celibate.”

It made me wonder if maybe the original writer of Exodus 16:11-16 had been French and what God supplied in the desert was actually snails, not quails!

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