Numbers 11
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Numbers 11:24-35

24Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord. He brought seventy men from the elders of the people and had them stand around the tent.

25Then the Lord descended in the cloud and spoke to him. He took some of the Spirit who was on Moses and placed the Spirit on the seventy elders. As the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they never did it again.

26Two men had remained in the camp, one named Eldad and the other Medad; the Spirit rested on them — they were among those listed, but had not gone out to the tent — and they prophesied in the camp.

27A young man ran and reported to Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”

28Joshua son of Nun, assistant to Moses since his youth, responded, “Moses, my lord, stop them!”

29But Moses asked him, “Are you jealous on my account? If only all the Lord’s people were prophets and the Lord would place his Spirit on them!”

30Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.

31A wind sent by the Lord came up and blew quail in from the sea; it dropped them all around the camp. They were flying three feet off the ground for about a day’s journey in every direction.

32The people were up all that day and night and all the next day gathering the quail — the one who took the least gathered sixty bushels  — and they spread them out all around the camp.

33While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the Lord’s anger burned against the people, and the Lord struck them with a very severe plague.

34So they named that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved the meat.

35From Kibroth-hattaavah the people moved on to Hazeroth and remained there.

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