Numbers [In the desert] 11:14-28

¹⁴I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.

¹⁵If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found chen ·grace· in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

¹⁶Adonai said to Moses Drawn out, “Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel God prevails, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.

¹⁷I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you not bear it yourself alone.

¹⁸“Say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, and you will eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of Adonai , saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt Abode of slavery.” Therefore Adonai will give you meat, and you will eat.

¹⁹You will not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days,

²⁰but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because you have rejected Adonai who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt Abode of slavery?”’”

²¹Moses Drawn out said, “The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month.’

²²Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?”

²³Adonai said to Moses Drawn out, “Has Adonai ’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.”

²⁴Moses Drawn out went out, and told the people Adonai ’s words; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent.

²⁵Adonai came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.

²⁶But two men remained in the camp. The name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested on them; and they were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp.

²⁷A young man ran, and told Moses Drawn out, and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!”

²⁸Joshua Salvation Yah the son of Nun, the servant of Moses Drawn out, one of his chosen men, answered, “My lord Moses Drawn out, forbid them!”