Numbers 11:26

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Eldad and Medad But two men remained in the camp; one’s name was Eldad, and the other’s name was Medad. And the Spirit rested on them.(Now they were among those in the registration, but had not gone to the tabernacle.) So they prophesied in the camp.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 36:5 : 5 Then Jeremiah told Baruch,“I am no longer allowed to go into the LORD’s temple.
  • Exod 3:11 : 11 Moses said to God,“Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, or that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
  • Exod 4:13-14 : 13 But Moses said,“O my Lord, please send anyone else whom you wish to send!” 14 Then the LORD became angry with Moses, and he said,“What about your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he can speak very well. Moreover, he is coming to meet you, and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart.
  • 1 Sam 10:22 : 22 So they inquired again of the LORD,“Has the man arrived here yet?” The LORD said,“He has hidden himself among the equipment.”
  • 1 Sam 20:26 : 26 However, Saul said nothing about it that day, for he thought,“Something has happened to make him ceremonially unclean. Yes, he must be unclean.”
  • Jer 1:6 : 6 I answered,“Oh, Sovereign LORD, Really I do not know how to speak well enough for that, for I am too young.”

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  • Num 11:27-32
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    89%

    27And a young man ran and told Moses,“Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!”

    28Joshua son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his choice young men, said,“My lord Moses, stop them!”

    29Moses said to him,“Are you jealous for me? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets, that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!”

    30Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.

    31Provision of Quail Now a wind went out from the LORD and brought quail from the sea, and let them fall near the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and about a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about three feet high on the surface of the ground.

    32And the people stayed up all that day, all that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail. The one who gathered the least gathered ten homers, and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.

  • Num 11:24-25
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    24So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD. He then gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and had them stand around the tabernacle.

    25And the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to them, and he took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but did not do so again.

  • Num 11:16-17
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    16The Response of God The LORD said to Moses,“Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know are elders of the people and officials over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting; let them take their position there with you.

    17Then I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take part of the Spirit that is on you, and will put it on them, and they will bear some of the burden of the people with you, so that you do not bear it all by yourself.

  • 9Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up,

  • Num 26:63-65
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    63These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the Israelites in the rift valley plains of Moab along the Jordan River opposite Jericho.

    64But there was not a man among these who had been among those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the Israelites in the desert of Sinai.

    65For the LORD had said of them,“They will surely die in the wilderness.” And there was not left a single man of them, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

  • 17So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned specifically by name,

  • 9And when the dew came down on the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.)

  • Num 9:19-20
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    19When the cloud remained over the tabernacle many days, then the Israelites obeyed the instructions of the LORD and did not journey.

    20When the cloud remained over the tabernacle a number of days, they remained camped according to the LORD’s commandment, and according to the LORD’s commandment they would journey.

  • 38But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among the men who went to investigate the land, lived.

  • 26The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

  • 1The Lord Ratifies the Covenant But to Moses the LORD said,“Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from a distance.

  • 11The LORD would speak to Moses face to face, the way a person speaks to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his servant, Joshua son of Nun, a young man, did not leave the tent.

  • 22Whether it was for two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud prolonged its stay over the tabernacle, the Israelites remained camped without traveling; but when it was taken up, they traveled on.

  • 7The fifty members of the prophetic guild went and stood opposite them at a distance, while Elijah and Elisha stood by the Jordan.

  • 2When Balaam lifted up his eyes, he saw Israel camped tribe by tribe; and the Spirit of God came upon him.

  • Num 12:5-6
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    5And the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent; he then called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward.

    6The LORD said,“Hear now my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known to him in a vision; I will speak with him in a dream.

  • 28An Outpouring of the Spirit(3:1) After all of this I will pour out my Spirit on all kinds of people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your elderly will have prophetic dreams; your young men will see visions.

  • 2and rebelled against Moses, along with some of the Israelites, 250 leaders of the community, chosen from the assembly, famous men.

  • 11Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. When his sons came home, they told him everything the prophet had done in Bethel that day. And they told their father all the words that he had spoken to the king.

  • 34And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day, when they traveled from the camp.

  • 3So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the rift valley plains of Moab, along the Jordan River across from Jericho. They said,

  • 52Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • 1The Israelites Complain When the people complained, it displeased the LORD. When the LORD heard it, his anger burned, and so the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some of the outer parts of the camp.

  • 2After they journeyed from Rephidim, they came to the desert of Sinai, and they camped in the desert; Israel camped there in front of the mountain.

  • 13Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • 13In the evening the quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning a layer of dew was all around the camp.

  • Num 27:16-17
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    16“Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all humankind, appoint a man over the community,

    17who will go out before them, and who will come in before them, and who will lead them out, and who will bring them in, so that the community of the LORD may not be like sheep that have no shepherd.”

  • 11His people remembered the ancient times. Where is the one who brought them up out of the sea, along with the shepherd of his flock? Where is the one who placed his holy Spirit among them,

  • 17Whenever the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the Israelites would begin their journey; and in whatever place the cloud settled, there the Israelites would make camp.

  • 44But they dared to go up to the crest of the hill, although neither the ark of the covenant of the LORD nor Moses departed from the camp.

  • 5So they came near and carried them away in their tunics to a place outside the camp just as Moses had spoken.

  • 20You imparted your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths; you provided water for their thirst.

  • 13Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the community went out to meet them outside the camp.

  • 16But this is what was spoken about through the prophet Joel:

  • 26And he said to the community,“Move away from the tents of these wicked men, and do not touch anything they have, lest you be destroyed because of all their sins.”

  • 18Then Israel went through the wilderness and bypassed the land of Edom and the land of Moab. They traveled east of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon River; they did not go through Moabite territory(the Arnon was Moab’s border).

  • 42When the community assembled against Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting– and the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.

  • 16In the camp they resented Moses, and Aaron, the LORD’s holy priest.