21. But Moses said, “The people around me include six hundred thousand soldiers; yet you say, ‘I will give them meat to eat for a whole month.’
22. Can enough sheep and cattle be slaughtered for them? If all the fish of the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?”
23. The Lord answered Moses: Is this beyond the Lord’s reach? You shall see now whether or not what I have said to you takes place.
24. So Moses went out and told the people what the Lord had said. Gathering seventy elders of the people, he had them stand around the tent.
25. The Lord then came down in the cloud and spoke to him. Taking some of the spirit that was on Moses, he bestowed it on the seventy elders; and as the spirit came to rest on them, they prophesied but did not continue.
26. Now two men, one named Eldad and the other Medad, had remained in the camp, yet the spirit came to rest on them also. They too had been on the list, but had not gone out to the tent; and so they prophesied in the camp.
27. So, when a young man ran and reported to Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp,”
28. Joshua, son of Nun, who from his youth had been Moses’ aide, said, “My lord, Moses, stop them.”
29. But Moses answered him, “Are you jealous for my sake? If only all the people of the Lord were prophets! If only the Lord would bestow his spirit on them!”
30. Then Moses retired to the camp, along with the elders of Israel.
31. There arose a wind from the Lord that drove in quail from the sea and left them all around the camp site, to a distance of a day’s journey and at a depth of two cubits upon the ground.
32. So all that day, all night, and all the next day the people set about to gather in the quail. Even the one who got the least gathered ten homers of them. Then they spread them out all around the camp.