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Numbers 11:27 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" A young man ran, and told Moses, and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!” "
Numbers 11:27
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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!”
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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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