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Numbers 11:27

Numbers 11:27 is verse 27 of Numbers chapter 11, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

A young man ran and reported to Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”

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King James Version

And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.

World English Bible

A young man ran, and told Moses, and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!”

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Numbers 11:25–29 · Berean Standard Bible

25 Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and He took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and placed that Spirit on the seventy elders. As the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but they never did so again.

26 Two men, however, had remained in the camp—one named Eldad and the other Medad—and the Spirit rested on them. They were among those listed, but they had not gone out to the tent, and they prophesied in the camp.

27 A young man ran and reported to Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”

28 Joshua son of Nun, the attendant to Moses since youth, spoke up and said, “Moses, my lord, stop them!”

29 But Moses replied, “Are you jealous on my account? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would place His Spirit on them!”

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