Numbers 11:17–29

¹⁷And I will ^acome down and talk with thee there: and ^bI will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear ^cthe burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone. ¹⁸And say thou unto the people, ^dSanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for you have wept in the ears of the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? ^efor it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the Lord will give you flesh, and ye shall eat. ¹⁹Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days; ²⁰but even a whole month, ^funtil it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the Lord which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, ^gWhy came we forth out of Egypt? ²¹And Moses said, ^hThe people, amongst whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month. ²²Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to ⁱsuffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to ⁱsuffice them? ²³And the Lord said unto Moses, ^kIs the Lord’s hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether ^lmy word shall come to pass unto thee or not. ²⁴And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the Lord, and ^mgathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle. ²⁵And the Lord ⁿcame down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and ⁿtook of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease. ²⁶But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but ^owent not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp. ²⁷And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. ²⁸And ^pJoshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one ^qof his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, ^rforbid them. ²⁹And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? ^swould God that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!