Numbers 11:17-31

171Then I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take away some of 2the Spirit who is upon you, and put Him upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you will not bear it by yourself. 18And you shall say to the people, ‘3Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept 4in the ears of the Lord, saying, “5Oh that someone would give us meat to eat! For we were well-off in Egypt.” Therefore the Lord will give you meat and you shall eat. 19You shall eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days, 206but for a whole month, until it comes out of your nose and 7makes you nauseated; because 8you have rejected the Lord who is among you and have wept before Him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?”’” 21But Moses said, “The people, among whom I am included, are six hundred thousand on foot! Yet You have said, ‘I will give them meat, so that they may eat for a whole month.’ 22Are flocks and herds to be slaughtered for them, so that it will be sufficient for them? Or are all the fish of the sea to be 9caught for them, so that it will be sufficient for them?” 23Then the Lord said to Moses, “Is 10the Lord’s 11power too little? Now you shall see whether 12My word will 13come true for you or not.”

24So Moses went out and 14told the people the words of the Lord. He also gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and positioned them around the tent. 2515Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him; and He took away some of the Spirit who was upon him and placed Him upon the seventy elders. And when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. Yet they did not do it again.

26But two men had remained in the camp; the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the 16other, Medad. And 17the Spirit rested upon them (and they were among those who had been registered, but had not gone out to the tent), and they prophesied in the camp. 27So a young man ran and informed Moses, and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.” 28Then 18Joshua the son of Nun, the personal servant of Moses from his youth, responded and said, “19My lord Moses, restrain them!” 29But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? 20If only all the Lord’s people were prophets, that the Lord would put His Spirit upon them!” 30Then Moses 21returned to the camp, both he and the elders of Israel.

3122Now a wind burst forth from the Lord and it brought quail from the sea, and dropped them beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and a day’s journey on the other side all around the camp, and about 23two cubits deep on the surface of the ground.