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Numbers - ch 11 v 21 - 35
- Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and you have said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.
- Shall flocks and herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?
- Yahweh said to Moses, Has Yahweh's hand grown short? now you will see whether my word shall happen to you or not.
- Moses went out, and told the people the words of Yahweh: and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent.
- Yahweh 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: and it happened that when the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.
- But there remained two men in the camp, the name of the 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.
- There ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
- Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, My lord Moses, forbid them.
- Moses said to him, Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh's people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!
- Moses got him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
- There went forth a wind from Yahweh, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day's journey on this side, and a day's journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the earth.
- The people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails: he who gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves around the camp.
- While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.
- The name of that place was called Kibrothhattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.
- From Kibrothhattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth; and they abode at Hazeroth.
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