20 but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because you have rejected the Lord who is amongst you, and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt?”’”
21 Moses said, “The people, amongst whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month.’
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.