18. Now tell the people, ‘Purify yourselves for tomorrow; you will have meat to eat. The Lord has heard you whining and saying that you wished you had some meat and that you were better off in Egypt. Now the Lord will give you meat, and you will have to eat it.
19. You will have to eat it not just for one or two days, or five, or ten, or even twenty days,
20. but for a whole month, until it comes out of your ears, until you are sick of it. This will happen because you have rejected the Lord who is here among you and have complained to him that you should never have left Egypt.’ ”
21. Moses said to the Lord, “Here I am leading 600,000 people, and you say that you will give them enough meat for a month?
22. Could enough cattle and sheep be killed to satisfy them? Are all the fish in the sea enough for them?”
23. “Is there a limit to my power?” the Lord answered. “You will soon see whether what I have said will happen or not!”
24. So Moses went out and told the people what the Lord had said. He assembled seventy of the leaders and placed them round the Tent.
25. Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him. He took some of the spirit he had given to Moses and gave it to the seventy leaders. When the spirit came on them, they began to shout like prophets, but not for long.