Bible Verses

The meat was still between their teeth when the Lord’s anger was already kindled against the people, and he struck them with a severe plague.

The people spent that day, the whole night, and all the next day gathering the quail. He who gathered the least had ten homers, and they spread them out for themselves around the camp.

Tombs of Kibroth-hattaavah A wind arose, sent by the Lord, that drove in quails from the sea and let them down beside the camp, covering the distance of a day’s walk on one side and almost a day’s walk on the other side around the camp; they were about three feet deep on the ground.

Then Moses and all the elders of the people returned to the camp.

But Moses said: “Are you jealous on my behalf? Would that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and the Lord would send his spirit upon them!”

Joshua, the son of Nun, who ministered to Moses from his youth, said, “My lord Moses, stop them!”

a young man ran and told Moses: “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”

Eldad and Medad Two men had remained in the camp; the name of one was Eldad, the name of the other Medad. However, the spirit came on them, for they were among those who were registered, though they had not gone out to the Tent. As they prophesied inside the camp,

The Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him. He took some of the spirit upon him and put it on the seventy elders. Now, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. However, they did not do this again.

Moses then told the people what the Lord had said. He assembled seventy men from among the elders and placed them around the Tent.