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Numbers 11:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you don’t bear it yourself alone. "

Numbers 11:17

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15 If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

16 The LORD said to Moses, “Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.

17 I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you don’t bear it yourself alone.

18 “Say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, and you will eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.” Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat.

19 You will not eat just one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days,

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Exodus 3:12

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"Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.”"

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"Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”"

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Numbers 11:25

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"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."

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Numbers 11:1

"The people were complaining in the ears of the LORD. When the LORD heard it, his anger burned; and the LORD’s fire burned among them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp."

Numbers 11:2

"The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire abated."

Numbers 11:3

"The name of that place was called Taberah, because the LORD’s fire burned among them."

Numbers 11:4

"The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?"

Numbers 11:5

"We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;"

Numbers 11:6

"but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at.”"

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