Study Desk

The people would go to gather it, and then grind it in handmills, or crush it between stones. After they cooked it in a pot or made cakes with it, it tasted like bread baked with olive oil.

Moses heard every family crying as they stood in the entrances of their tents. Then the Lord became very angry, and Moses got upset.

I will come down and speak with you there. I will take some of the Spirit that is in you, and I will give it to them. They will help you care for the people so that you will not have to care for them alone.

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.

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.

The people went out and gathered quail all that day, that night, and the next day. Everyone gathered at least sixty bushels, and they spread them around the camp.

They said, "Is Moses the only one the Lord speaks through? Doesn't he also speak through us?" And the Lord heard this.

So the Lord suddenly spoke to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam and said, "All three of you come to the Meeting Tent." So they went.

The Lord came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance to the Tent. He called to Aaron and Miriam, and they both came near.

So they went up and explored the land, from the Desert of Zin all the way to Rehob by Lebo Hamath.

They went through the southern area to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak lived. (The city of Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

In the Valley of Eshcol, they cut off a branch of a grapevine that had one bunch of grapes on it and carried that branch on a pole between two of them. They also got some pomegranates and figs.

They came back to Moses and Aaron and all the Israelites at Kadesh, in the Desert of Paran. The men reported to them and showed everybody the fruit from the land.

They told Moses, "We went to the land where you sent us, and it is a fertile land! Here is some of its fruit.

And those men gave the Israelites a bad report about the land they explored, saying, "The land that we explored is too large to conquer. All the people we saw are very tall.

They said to each other, "Let's choose a leader and go back to Egypt."

I will give them a terrible sickness and get rid of them. But I will make you into a great nation that will be stronger than they are."

and the Egyptians will tell this to those who live in this land. They have already heard about you, Lord . They know that you are with your people and that you were seen face to face. They know that your cloud stays over your people and that you lead your people with that cloud during the day and with fire at night.

All these people saw my glory and the miracles I did in Egypt and in the desert, but they disobeyed me and tested me ten times.

I, the Lord , have spoken, and I will certainly do these things to all these evil people who have come together against me. So they will all die here in this desert."