Numbers 11:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the Lord said to Moses, Send for seventy of the responsible men of Israel, who are in your opinion men of weight and authority over the people; make them come to the Tent of meeting and be there with you.

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  • Exod 24:1 : 1 And he said to Moses, Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, and Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the chiefs of Israel; and give me worship from a distance.
  • Exod 24:9 : 9 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the chiefs of Israel went up:
  • Deut 1:15 : 15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men and respected, and made them rulers over you, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds and captains of fifties and captains of tens, and overseers of your tribes.
  • Deut 16:18 : 18 You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.
  • Deut 31:28 : 28 Get together before me all those who are in authority in your tribes, and your overseers, so that I may say these things in their hearing, and make heaven and earth my witnesses against them.
  • Ezek 8:11 : 11 And before them seventy of the responsible men of the children of Israel had taken their places, every man with a vessel for burning perfumes in his hand, and in the middle of them was Jaazaniah, the son of Shaphan; and a cloud of smoke went up from the burning perfume.
  • Luke 10:1 : 1 Now after these things, the Lord made selection of seventy others and sent them before him, two together, into every town and place where he himself was about to come.
  • Luke 10:17 : 17 And the seventy came back with joy, saying, Lord, even the evil spirits are under our power in your name.
  • Gen 46:27 : 27 And the sons of Joseph whom he had in Egypt were two. Seventy persons of the family of Jacob came into Egypt.
  • Exod 4:29 : 29 Then Moses and Aaron went and got together all the chiefs of the children of Israel:

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  • Num 11:23-27
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    23And the Lord said to Moses, Has the Lord's hand become short? Now you will see if my word comes true for you or not.

    24And Moses went out and gave the people the words of the Lord: and he took seventy of the responsible men of the people, placing them round the Tent.

    25Then the Lord came down in the cloud and had talk with him, and put on the seventy men some of the spirit which was on him: now when the spirit came to rest on them, they were like prophets, but only at that time.

    26But two men were still in the tent-circle one of them named Eldad and the other Medad: and the spirit came to rest on them; they were among those who had been sent for, but they had not gone out to the Tent: and the prophet's power came on them in the tent-circle.

    27And a young man went running to Moses and said, Eldad and Medad are acting as prophets in the tent-circle.

  • Num 11:17
    85%

    17And I will come down and have talk with you there: and I will take some of the spirit which is on you and put it on them, and they will take part of the weight of the people off you, so that you do not have to take it by yourself.

  • Exod 24:9
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    9Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the chiefs of Israel went up:

  • Exod 24:1-2
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    1And he said to Moses, Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, and Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the chiefs of Israel; and give me worship from a distance.

    2And Moses only may come near to the Lord; but the others are not to come near, and the people may not come up with them.

  • Num 11:30
    75%

    30Then Moses, with the responsible men of Israel, went back to the tent-circle.

  • Num 27:15-17
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    15Then Moses said to the Lord,

    16Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, put a man at the head of this people,

    17To go out and come in before them and be their guide; so that the people of the Lord may not be like sheep without a keeper.

  • Exod 19:7
    75%

    7And Moses came and sent for the chiefs of the people and put before them all these words which the Lord had given him orders to say.

  • Num 11:15
    74%

    15If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.

  • Exod 4:29
    73%

    29Then Moses and Aaron went and got together all the chiefs of the children of Israel:

  • Num 1:17
    73%

    17And Moses and Aaron took these men, marked out by name;

  • Num 16:44
    73%

    44And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Exod 16:11
    72%

    11And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Exod 18:25
    72%

    25And he made selection of able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens.

  • Exod 17:5-6
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    72%

    5And the Lord said to Moses, Go on before the people, and take some of the chiefs of Israel with you, and take in your hand the rod which was stretched out over the Nile, and go.

    6See, I will take my place before you on the rock in Horeb; and when you give the rock a blow, water will come out of it, and the people will have drink. And Moses did so before the eyes of the chiefs of Israel.

  • Num 14:26
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    26Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

  • Num 16:20-23
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    72%

    20And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

    21Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them.

    22Then falling down on their faces they said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, because of one man's sin will your wrath be moved against all the people?

    23And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 20:6-7
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    6Then Moses and Aaron went away from the people to the door of the Tent of meeting; and, falling on their faces there, they saw the glory of the Lord.

    7And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 16:2-3
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    2And came before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty chiefs of the people, men of good name who had a place in the meeting of the people.

    3They came together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take overmuch on yourselves, seeing that all the people are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them; why then have you put yourselves in authority over the people of the Lord?

  • Num 17:1
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    1And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 11:21
    71%

    21Then Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, I will give them flesh to be their food for a month.

  • Deut 1:13
    71%

    13Take for yourselves men who are wise, far-seeing, and respected among you, from your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

  • Deut 31:14
    71%

    14At that time the Lord said to Moses, The day of your death is near: send for Joshua, and come to the Tent of meeting so that I may give him his orders. So Moses and Joshua went to the Tent of meeting.

  • Num 13:1
    70%

    1And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 26:52
    70%

    52And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Exod 33:12
    70%

    12And Moses said to the Lord, See, you say to me, Be this people's guide on their journey, but you have not made clear to me whom you will send with me. But you have said, I have knowledge of you by name, and you have grace in my eyes.

  • Num 26:3
    70%

    3So Moses and Eleazar the priest gave them the order in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho, saying,

  • Num 16:42
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    42Now when the people had come together against Moses and Aaron, looking in the direction of the Tent of meeting, they saw the cloud covering it, and the glory of the Lord came before their eyes.

  • Num 14:5
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    5Then Moses and Aaron went down on their faces before the meeting of the people.

  • Num 16:36
    70%

    36And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 16:16
    70%

    16And Moses said to Korah, You and all your band are to come before the Lord tomorrow, you and they and Aaron:

  • Num 15:17
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    17And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 32:28
    70%

    28So Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua, the son of Nun, and to the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel.

  • Exod 7:8
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    8And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

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    17And Moses made the people come out of their tents and take their places before God; and they came to the foot of the mountain,

  • Exod 19:21
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    21And the Lord said to Moses, Go down and give the people orders to keep back, for fear that a great number of them, forcing their way through to see the Lord, may come to destruction.

  • Exod 24:14
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    14And he said to the chiefs, Keep your places here till we come back to you: Aaron and Hur are with you; if anyone has any cause let him go to them.

  • Exod 18:21
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    21But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens;