21. Moses said to the Lord, “Here I am leading 600,000 people, and you say that you will give them enough meat for a month?
22. Could enough cattle and sheep be killed to satisfy them? Are all the fish in the sea enough for them?”
23. “Is there a limit to my power?” the Lord answered. “You will soon see whether what I have said will happen or not!”
24. So Moses went out and told the people what the Lord had said. He assembled seventy of the leaders and placed them round the Tent.
25. Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him. He took some of the spirit he had given to Moses and gave it to the seventy leaders. When the spirit came on them, they began to shout like prophets, but not for long.
26. Two of the seventy leaders, Eldad and Medad, had stayed in the camp and had not gone out to the Tent. There in the camp the spirit came on them, and they too began to shout like prophets.
27. A young man ran out to tell Moses what Eldad and Medad were doing.
28. Then Joshua son of Nun, who had been Moses' helper since he was a young man, spoke up and said to Moses, “Stop them, sir!”