Numbers 11:16-30.
Numbers 11.16-30
Seventy Leaders Are Chosen To Help Moses
The Lord said to Moses:
"Choose seventy of Israel's respected leaders and go with them to the
sacred tent. While I am talking with you there, I will give them some
of your authority, so they can share responsibility for my people. You
will no longer have to care for them by yourself. As for the
Israelites, I have heard them complaining about not having meat and
about being better off in Egypt. So tell them to make themselves
acceptable to me, because tomorrow they will have meat. - In fact,
they will have meat day after day for a whole month—not just a few
days, or even ten or twenty. They turned against me and wanted to
return to Egypt. Now they will eat meat until they get sick of it.
Moses replied, "At least six hundred thousand grown men are here with
me. How can you say there will be enough meat to feed them and their
families for a whole month? Even if we butchered all of our sheep and
cattle, or caught every fish in the sea, we wouldn't have enough to
feed them." The Lord answered, "I can do anything! Watch and you'll
see my words come true." Moses told the people what the Lord had said.
Then he chose seventy respected leaders and went with them to the
sacred tent. While the leaders stood in a circle around the tent,
Moses went inside, and the Lord spoke with him. Then the Lord took
some authority from Moses and gave it to the seventy leaders. And when
the Lord's Spirit took control of them, they started shouting like
prophets. But they did it only this one time. Eldad and Medad were two
leaders who had not gone to the tent. But when the Spirit took control
of them, they began shouting like prophets right there in camp. A boy
ran to Moses and told him about Eldad and Medad. Joshua was there
helping Moses, as he had done since he was young. And he said to
Moses, "Sir, you must stop them!" But Moses replied, "Are you
concerned what this might do to me? I wish the Lord would give his
Spirit to all his people so everyone could be a prophet." Then Moses
and the seventy leaders went back to camp."
God bless you.
Seventy Leaders Are Chosen To Help Moses
The Lord said to Moses:
"Choose seventy of Israel's respected leaders and go with them to the
sacred tent. While I am talking with you there, I will give them some
of your authority, so they can share responsibility for my people. You
will no longer have to care for them by yourself. As for the
Israelites, I have heard them complaining about not having meat and
about being better off in Egypt. So tell them to make themselves
acceptable to me, because tomorrow they will have meat. - In fact,
they will have meat day after day for a whole month—not just a few
days, or even ten or twenty. They turned against me and wanted to
return to Egypt. Now they will eat meat until they get sick of it.
Moses replied, "At least six hundred thousand grown men are here with
me. How can you say there will be enough meat to feed them and their
families for a whole month? Even if we butchered all of our sheep and
cattle, or caught every fish in the sea, we wouldn't have enough to
feed them." The Lord answered, "I can do anything! Watch and you'll
see my words come true." Moses told the people what the Lord had said.
Then he chose seventy respected leaders and went with them to the
sacred tent. While the leaders stood in a circle around the tent,
Moses went inside, and the Lord spoke with him. Then the Lord took
some authority from Moses and gave it to the seventy leaders. And when
the Lord's Spirit took control of them, they started shouting like
prophets. But they did it only this one time. Eldad and Medad were two
leaders who had not gone to the tent. But when the Spirit took control
of them, they began shouting like prophets right there in camp. A boy
ran to Moses and told him about Eldad and Medad. Joshua was there
helping Moses, as he had done since he was young. And he said to
Moses, "Sir, you must stop them!" But Moses replied, "Are you
concerned what this might do to me? I wish the Lord would give his
Spirit to all his people so everyone could be a prophet." Then Moses
and the seventy leaders went back to camp."
God bless you.
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