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So the Lord said to Moses, "Gather for me seventy of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; bring them to the tent of meeting, and have them take their place there with you.

I will come down and talk with you there; and I will take some of the spirit that is on you and put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people along with you so that you will not bear it all by yourself.

So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord ; and he gathered seventy elders of the people, and placed them all around the tent.

Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders; and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did not do so again.

Two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other named Medad, and the spirit rested on them; they were among those registered, but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp.

So the people worked all that day and night and all the next day, gathering the quails; the least anyone gathered was ten homers; and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.

So that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had the craving.

Now the man Moses was very humble, more so than anyone else on the face of the earth.

Suddenly the Lord said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, "Come out, you three, to the tent of meeting." So the three of them came out.

Not so with my servant Moses; he is entrusted with all my house.

Then Aaron said to Moses, "Oh, my lord, do not punish us for a sin that we have so foolishly committed.

So Miriam was shut out of the camp for seven days; and the people did not set out on the march until Miriam had been brought in again.

So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the Lord , all of them leading men among the Israelites.

So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, near Lebo-hamath.

So they brought to the Israelites an unfavorable report of the land that they had spied out, saying, "The land that we have gone through as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people that we saw in it are of great size.

There we saw the Nephilim (the Anakites come from the Nephilim); and to ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them."

So they said to one another, "Let us choose a captain, and go back to Egypt."

According to the number that you offer, so you shall do with each and every one.

You have the fringe so that, when you see it, you will remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them, and not follow the lust of your own heart and your own eyes.

So you shall remember and do all my commandments, and you shall be holy to your God.