18. “And say to the people, ‘Purify yourselves, for tomorrow you will have meat to eat. You were whining, and the lord heard you when you cried, “Oh, for some meat! We were better off in Egypt!” Now the lord will give you meat, and you will have to eat it.
19. And it won’t be for just a day or two, or for five or ten or even twenty.
20. You will eat it for a whole month until you gag and are sick of it. For you have rejected the lord, who is here among you, and you have whined to him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?”’”
21. But Moses responded to the lord, “There are 600,000 foot soldiers here with me, and yet you say, ‘I will give them meat for a whole month!’
22. Even if we butchered all our flocks and herds, would that satisfy them? Even if we caught all the fish in the sea, would that be enough?”
23. Then the lord said to Moses, “Has my arm lost its power? Now you will see whether or not my word comes true!”
24. So Moses went out and reported the lord’s words to the people. He gathered the seventy elders and stationed them around the Tabernacle.
25. And the lord came down in the cloud and spoke to Moses. Then he gave the seventy elders the same Spirit that was upon Moses. And when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But this never happened again.
26. Two men, Eldad and Medad, had stayed behind in the camp. They were listed among the elders, but they had not gone out to the Tabernacle. Yet the Spirit rested upon them as well, so they prophesied there in the camp.