Numbers 11:17–29

¹⁷I will come down and speak with you there; I will take away from the spirit that is on you, and I will place it on them; and they will bear the burdens of the people with you; you will not bear it alone. ¹⁸And you will say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves tomorrow, for you will eat meat because you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, “Who will feed us good meat? It was good for us in Egypt.” Yahweh will give to you meat, and you will eat. ¹⁹You will eat, not one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days, ²⁰but for a whole month,^o until it comes out from your nose and becomes as nausea to you; because you have rejected Yahweh, who is in your midst, and you wept before his presence,^p saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?” ’ ” ²¹But Moses said, “There are six hundred thousand on foot, among whom I am in the midst, and you yourself said, ‘I will give meat to them, and they will eat for a whole month.’ ²²Should flocks and cattle be slaughtered for them? Should all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be enough for them?” ²³And Yahweh said to Moses, “Is Yahweh’s power limited?^q Now you will see if my word will happen or not.”

²⁴So Moses went out, and he spoke the words of Yahweh to the people, and he gathered together seventy men from the elders of the people, and he made them stand^r all around the tent. ²⁵Then Yahweh went down in the cloud and spoke to him, and he took away the spirit that was on him, and he put it^s on the seventy elders. And as soon as the spirit was resting on them they prophesied, but they did not do it again.

²⁶But two men were left in the camp; the name of one was Eldad, and the name of the second was Medad, and the spirit rested on them; they were among those who were written down, but they did not go out to the tent, so they prophesied in the camp. ²⁷So a boy^t ran and told Moses and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.” ²⁸And Joshua son of Nun, the assistant of Moses from time of his youth, answered, “Moses, my lord, stop them.” ²⁹But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that he^u give all Yahweh’s people prophets, that Yahweh put his spirit on them!”