Numbers 11 God assigns seventy elders to help Moses

Numbers 11
God assigns seventy elders to help Moses

16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Assemble me seventy men of the elders of Israel, of whom ye know that they are elders of the people, and their officers: and thou shalt bring them before the tabernacle of the congregation, and there they shall be with thee.
17 Then I will go down and there I will speak with you, and I will take away the spirit that is upon you, and will put it upon them: and they shall bear the charge of the people, that you may not take it.
18 And thou shalt say unto the people, Sanctify yourselves to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: because ye wept in the ears of the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat, for we were well off in Egypt? Wherefore the Lord shall give you flesh, and ye shall eat.
19 You shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days:
20 But a whole month, until it comes out through your nostrils, until you become angry with her, for you have rejected the Lord who is among you, and you wept before him, saying, Why have we come out of Egypt?
21 And Moses said, "Six hundred thousand men are standing in the midst of whom I am: and you have said, 'I will give them flesh, and they shall eat a whole month.'
22 Will they slaughter sheep and cattle for them? or will all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, that they may suffice?
23 And the LORD said unto Moses, Shall the hand of the LORD be shortened? now you will see if my word will happen to you or not.
24 And Moses went out, and spake the words of Jehovah unto the people, and gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tent.
25 And the LORD came down in the cloud, and spake unto him; and put it on the seventy elders: and it came to pass, when the spirits rested upon them, that they prophesied; but then never again.
26 And there remained in the camp two men; the name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad; and the Spirit rested upon him (for they were among the enrollees, though they did not go forth into the tent), and prophesied in the camp.
27 And a certain youth ran, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad prophesy in the camp.
28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen young men, answered and said, My Lord, Moses, forbid them.
29 But Moses said, Are you jealous for me? Would that all the people of the Lord were a prophet, that the Lord gave them his spirit!
30 And Moses returned to the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
31 And the wind of the LORD blew, and brought quails from the sea, and scattered them about the camp by the way by day, and by the way by day, by the side of the camp, and by about two cubits upon the land. .
32 And the people arose all that day and all that night, and all the day after, and gathered up the cords; the less he had, he had taken ten moles; and stretched out to them round about the camp.
33 When the flesh was between his teeth, before he was chewed, the anger of Jehovah was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a great plague.
34 And the name of the place was called Kibroth-a'avava, because there they buried the people that had the desire.
35 From Kibroth-a'avava the people went to Hazeroth, and they stopped at Hazeroth.