Numbers 11:24-35

24So Moses went out from God's Tent and he told the people the Lord's message. He chose 70 leaders of the Israelites and he put them round the Tent.

25Then the Lord came down in the cloud to speak to them. He took some of the authority of his Spirit that he had given to Moses. And he shared it with the 70 leaders. While God's Spirit stayed on them, they prophesied. But they did not do it again after that.

26But two men had stayed in the camp. Their names were Eldad and Medad. They were among the men that Moses had chosen. But they had not gone to meet with God in the special Tent. God's Spirit also came on them. So they prophesied in the camp.

27A young man ran to Moses and he said, ‘Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.’

28Nun's son Joshua was there. Since he was a boy, he had been Moses' servant. Joshua said to Moses, ‘Moses, my master, stop them.’

29But Moses said to him, ‘Perhaps you think that I might be jealous of them. But I would be happy if the Lord would give his Spirit to all his people. I would like them all to be prophets!’

30Then Moses and the leaders returned to the camp.

31Then the Lord sent a wind. It blew in birds called quails from the sea. They fell to the ground everywhere round the camp. There were birds everywhere as far as a person could walk in one day in any direction. They were about 1 metre deep all over the ground.

32The people were picking up the birds all day and all night and all the next day. Each person got at least 220 litres of birds. They put their dead bodies on the ground everywhere round the camp.

33But the Lord became very angry with the people. They had not even started to eat the meat when the Lord sent a very bad disease among them.

34They buried there the bodies of people who had wanted better food. So the people called that place Kibroth-Hattaavah.

35From Kibroth-Hattaavah the people travelled to Hazeroth, and they stayed at Hazeroth.