22. Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?”
23. The Lord said to Moses, “Has the Lord’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.”
24. Moses went out, and told the people the Lord’s words; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent.
25. The Lord 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. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.
26. But two men remained in the camp. The name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad; and the Spirit rested on them. They were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp.
27. A young man ran, and told Moses, and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!”
28. Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, “My lord Moses, forbid them!”
29. Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the Lord’s people were prophets, that the Lord would put his Spirit on them!”
30. Moses went into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
31. A wind from the Lord went out 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.
32. The people rose up all that day, and all of that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them all out for themselves around the camp.
33. While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the Lord’s anger burnt against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague.
34. The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.
35. From Kibroth Hattaavah the people travelled to Hazeroth; and they stayed at Hazeroth.