Numbers 11:27

Contemporary English Version

A boy ran to Moses and told him about Eldad and Medad.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
There ran a young man, and told Moshe, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.

King James Version
And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.

Lexham English Bible
So a boy ran and told Moses and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."

New Century Version
A young man ran to Moses and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."

New English Translation
And a young man ran and told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!"

Amplified Bible
So a young man ran and told Moses and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying [extolling the praises of God and declaring His will] in the camp."

New American Standard Bible
So a young man ran and informed Moses, and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then there ranne a yong man, and tolde Moses, and saide, Eldad and Medad doe prophesie in the hoste.

Legacy Standard Bible
So a young man ran and told Moses and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."

Complete Jewish Bible
A young man ran and told Moshe, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!"

Darby Translation
And there ran a youth, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.

Easy-to-Read Version
A young man ran and told Moses. The man said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in camp."

English Standard Version
And a young man ran and told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."

George Lamsa Translation
And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.

Good News Translation
A young man ran out to tell Moses what Eldad and Medad were doing.

Christian Standard Bible®
A young man ran and reported to Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”

Literal Translation
And a young man ran and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then ran there a lad, & tolde Moses, & sayde: Eldad and Medad prophecie in the hoost.

American Standard Version
And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.

Bible in Basic English
And a young man went running to Moses and said, Eldad and Medad are acting as prophets in the tent-circle.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And there ran a young man, and tolde Moyses, and sayd: Eldad and Medad do prophesie in the hoast.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said: 'Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.'

King James Version (1611)
And there ranne a yong man, and tolde Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad doe prophesie in the campe.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And a young man ran and told Moses, and spoke, saying, Eldad and Modad prophesy in the camp.

English Revised Version
And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.

Berean Standard Bible
A young man ran and reported to Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne thei profesieden in the tentis, a child ran, and teld to Moises, and seide, Heldad and Medad profecien in the tentis.

Young's Literal Translation
and the young man runneth, and declareth to Moses, and saith, `Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.'

Update Bible Version
And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.

Webster's Bible Translation
And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.

World English Bible
There ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.

New King James Version
And a young man ran and told Moses, and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."

New Living Translation
A young man ran and reported to Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!"

New Life Bible
A young man ran and told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are speaking the word of the Lord among the tents."

New Revised Standard
And a young man ran and told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And there ran a young man, and told Moses and said, - Eldad and Medad, are prophesying in the camp!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when they prophesied in the camp, there ran a young man, and told Moses, saying: Eldad and Medad prophesy in the camp.

Revised Standard Version
And a young man ran and told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."

THE MESSAGE
A young man ran and told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So a young man ran and told Moses and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."

Contextual Overview

²⁴ Moses told the people what the Lord had said. Then he chose seventy respected leaders and went with them to the sacred tent. While the leaders stood in a circle around the tent, Moses went inside, ²⁵ and the Lord spoke with him. Then the Lord took some authority from Moses and gave it to the seventy leaders. And when the Lord 's Spirit took control of them, they started shouting like prophets. But they did it only this one time. ²⁶ Eldad and Medad were two leaders who had not gone to the tent. But when the Spirit took control of them, they began shouting like prophets right there in camp. ²⁷ A boy ran to Moses and told him about Eldad and Medad. ²⁸ Joshua was there helping Moses, as he had done since he was young. And he said to Moses, "Sir, you must stop them!" ²⁹ But Moses replied, "Are you concerned what this might do to me? I wish the Lord would give his Spirit to all his people so everyone could be a prophet." ³⁰ Then Moses and the seventy leaders went back to camp.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Luke 9:49 - we saw

Cross-References

Genesis 11:1
At first everyone spoke the same language,

Genesis 11:29
Abram married Sarai, but she was not able to have any children. And Nahor married Milcah, who was the daughter of Haran and the sister of Iscah.

Genesis 11:31
Terah decided to move from Ur to the land of Canaan. He took along Abram and Sarai and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran. But when they came to the city of Haran, they decided to settle there instead.

Genesis 12:4
Abram was seventy-five years old when the Lord told him to leave the city of Haran. He obeyed and left with his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and slaves they had gotten while in Haran. When they came to the land of Canaan,

Genesis 14:12
They also captured Abram's nephew Lot, who lived in Sodom. They took him and his possessions and then left.

2 Peter 2:7
Lot lived right and was greatly troubled by the terrible way those wicked people were living. He was a good man, and day after day he suffered because of the evil things he saw and heard. So the Lord rescued him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And there ran a young man,.... From the camp to the tabernacle, who had heard Eldad and Medad prophesy; which he thought was not right, being done without the knowledge and approbation of Moses, and in a private tent in the tabernacle, not among the elders, but the common people: who this young than was is not material to know; some of the Rabbins, as Jarchi says, affirm he was Gershon the son of Moses; whoever he was, no doubt, it was with a good design, consulting the glory of God and the honour of Moses, and therefore in great haste ran to him with the information:

and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp; who seem by this, to be persons well known, and of some note and figure; since not only the young man could call them by their names, but there needed no other description of them to Moses and those with him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Occurrences at Kibroth-hattavah.

Numbers 11:4

The mixt multitude - The word in the original resembles our “riff-raff,” and denotes a mob of people scraped together. It refers here to the multitude of strangers (see Exodus 12:38) who had followed the Israelites from Egypt.

Numbers 11:5

The natural dainties of Egypt are set forth in this passage with the fullness and relish which bespeak personal experience.

Numbers 11:6-7

There is nothing at all ... - literally, “Nought at all have we except that our eyes are unto this manna;” i. e. “Nought else have we to expect beside this manna.” On the manna see Exodus 16:15 note; on bdellium see Genesis 2:12 note.

Numbers 11:10

The weeping was general; every family wept (compare Zechariah 12:12), and in a manner public and unconcealed.

Numbers 11:11-15

The complaint and remonstrance of Moses may be compared with that in 1 Kings 19:4 ff; Jonah 4:1-3, and contrasted with the language of Abraham (Genesis 18:23 ff) The meekness of Moses (compare Numbers 12:3) sank under vexation into despair. His language shows us how imperfect and prone to degeneracy are the best saints on earth.

Numbers 11:16

Seventy men of the elders of Israel - Seventy elders had also gone up with Moses to the Lord in the mount Exodus 24:1, Exodus 24:9. Seventy is accordingly the number of colleagues assigned to Moses to share his burden with him. To it, the Jews trace the origin of the Sanhedrim. Subsequent notices Numbers 16:25; Joshua 7:6; Joshua 8:10, Joshua 8:33; Joshua 9:11; Joshua 23:2; Joshua 24:1, Joshua 24:31 so connect the elders with the government of Israel as to point to the fact that the appointment now made was not a merely temporary one, though it would seem to have soon fallen into desuetude. We find no traces of it in the days of the Judges and the Kings.

Elders of the people, and officers over them - In English idiom, “elders and officers of the people.” Both elders and officers appear in Egypt (Exodus 3:16; Exodus 5:6 ff): the former had headed the nation in its efforts after freedom; the latter were the subordinate, though unwilling, agents of Egyptian tyranny. The two classes no doubt were working together; and from those who belonged to either, perhaps from those who were both eiders and officers, the council of Seventy was to be selected.

Numbers 11:17

I will take of the spirit which is upon thee - Render rather separate from the spirit, etc.; i. e. they shall have their portion in the same divine gift which thou hast.

Numbers 11:25

They prophesied - i. e. under the extraordinary impulse of the Holy Spirit they uttered forth the praises of God, or declared His will. Compare the marginal references.

And did not cease - Rather, and added not, i. e. they prophesied at this time only and not afterward. The sign was granted on the occasion of their appointment to accredit them in their office; it was not continued, because their proper function was to be that of governing not prophesying.

Numbers 11:26

Of them that were written - i. e. enrolled among the Seventy. The expression points to a regular appointment duly recorded and permanent.

Numbers 11:29

Enviest thou for my sake? - (Compare Mark 9:38 ff) The other members of the Seventy had been with Moses (compare Numbers 6:16, Numbers 6:24-25) when the gift of prophecy was bestowed on them. They received “of the spirit that was upon him,” and exercised their office visibly through and for him. Eldad and Medad prophesying in the camp seemed to Joshua to be acting independently, and so establishing a separate center of authority.

Numbers 11:31

The southeast wind, which blew from the neighboring Elanitic gulf of the Red Sea, brought the quails Exodus 16:13.

Two cubits high - Better, “two cubits above the face of the ground:” i. e. the quails, wearied with their long flight, flew about breast high, and were easily secured by the people, who spread them all abroad for themselves Numbers 11:32, in order to salt and dry them. The quail habitually flies with the wind, and low.

Numbers 11:32

Ten homers - About 55 bushels. Compare Leviticus 27:16.

Numbers 11:33

Ere it was chewed - Better, ere it was consumed. See Numbers 11:19-20. The surfeit in which the people indulged, as described in Numbers 11:32, disposed them to sickness. God’s wrath, visiting the gluttonous through their gluttony, aggravated natural consequences into a supernatural visitation.

Numbers 11:34, Numbers 11:35

(Kibroth-hattaavah has been identified by Palmer with the extensive remains, graves, etc., at Erweis El Ebeirig, and Hazeroth “enclosures” with Ain Hadherah.)

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 11:27. Eldad and Medad do prophesy, &c. —

ELDAD, they said, and MEDAD there,

Irregularly bold,

By Moses uncommission'd, dare

A separate meeting hold!

And still whom none but heaven will own.

Men whom the world decry,

Men authorized by GOD alone,

Presume to prophesy!