20. but you will eat that meat for a whole month. You will eat it until it comes out your nose, and you will grow to hate it. This is because you have rejected the Lord, who is with you. You have cried to him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?” ’ ”
21. Moses said, “Lord, here are six hundred thousand people standing around me, and you say, ‘I will give them enough meat to eat for a month!’
22. If we killed all the flocks and herds, that would not be enough. If we caught all the fish in the sea, that would not be enough.”
23. But the Lord said to Moses, “Do you think I’m weak? Now you will see if I can do what I say.”
24. So Moses went out to the people and told them what the Lord had said. He gathered seventy of the elders together and had them stand around the Tent.
25. Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to Moses. The Lord took some of the Spirit Moses had, and he gave it to the seventy leaders. With the Spirit in them, they prophesied, but just that one time.
26. Two men named Eldad and Medad were also listed as leaders, but they did not go to the Tent. They stayed in the camp, but the Spirit was also given to them, and they prophesied in the camp.