21. But Moses said, “There are six hundred thousand on foot, among whom I am in the midst, and you yourself said, ‘I will give meat to them, and they will eat for a whole month.’
22. Should flocks and cattle be slaughtered for them? Should all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be enough for them?”
23. And Yahweh said to Moses, “Is Yahweh’s power limited? Now you will see if my word will happen or not.”
24. So Moses went out, and he spoke the words of Yahweh to the people, and he gathered together seventy men from the elders of the people, and he made them stand all around the tent.
25. Then Yahweh went down in the cloud and spoke to him, and he took away the spirit that was on him, and he put it on the seventy elders. And as soon as the spirit was resting on them they prophesied, but they did not do it again.
26. But two men were left in the camp; the name of one was Eldad, and the name of the second was Medad, and the spirit rested on them; they were among those who were written down, but they did not go out to the tent, so they prophesied in the camp.
27. So a boy ran and told Moses and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”
28. And Joshua son of Nun, the assistant of Moses from time of his youth, answered, “Moses, my lord, stop them.”
29. But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that he give all Yahweh’s people prophets, that Yahweh put his spirit on them!”
30. Then Moses and the elders of Israel were gathered to the camp.
31. Then a wind set out from Yahweh, and it drove quails from the west, and he spread them out on the camp about a day’s journey on one side and about a day’s journey on the other, all around the camp, about two cubits on the surface of the land.
32. And so the people worked all day and all night and all the next day, and they gathered the quail (the least of the ones collecting gathered ten homers).
33. While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was consumed, Yahweh was angry with the people, and Yahweh struck a very great plague among the people.
34. And he called the name of that place Kibroth Hattaavah because they buried the people that were greedy.