Numbers 11
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Numbers 11:24-35

24So Moses went out and told the people Adonai’s words. He gathered 70 of the elders of the people and had them stand around the Tent.

25Adonai descended in the cloud and spoke with him. He took some of the Ruach that was on him and placed it on each of the 70 elders. It so happened that when the Ruach first rested on them, they prophesied—but never again.

26Two men, however, had remained in the camp. The name of one was Eldad and the name of the other was Medad. The Ruach rested on them. They were among those listed, but they had not gone out to the Tent. So they prophesied in the camp.

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

28Joshua son of Nun, the assistant of Moses since his youth, cried out and said, “Moses, my lord, stop them!”

29But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous on my behalf? If only Adonai would make all the people prophets! If only Adonai would put the Spirit on all of them!”

30Then Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp.

31Now a wind went out from Adonai and drove quails from the sea. He brought them into the camp to about a day’s journey in any direction, about two cubits above the ground all around the camp.

32The people went out all that day and all that night and all the following day and collected quail. No one gathered less than ten omers. They spread them out all around the camp.

33Yet while the meat was between their teeth, before it was swallowed, Adonai’s anger burned against the people. So Adonai struck the people with a severe plague.

34For that reason the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah , because they buried the people who were craving.

35From Kibroth-hattaavah the people journeyed to Hazeroth and stayed in Hazeroth.

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