04:011:012 Have I conceived all this people? have
I begotten them, that
thou
shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as
a
nursing
father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which
thou
swarest unto their fathers?
04:011:013 Whence should I have flesh to give unto
all this people? for
they
weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
04:011:014 I am not able to bear all this people alone,
because it is too
heavy
for me.
04:011:015 And if thou deal thus with me, kill me,
I pray thee, out of
hand,
if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not
see
my
wretchedness.
04:011:016 And the lord said unto Moses, Gather
unto me seventy men of
the
elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders
of
the
people, and officers over them; and bring them unto
the
tabernacle
of the congregation, that they may stand there with
thee.
04:011:017 And I will come down and talk with thee
there: and I will take
of
the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon
them;
and
they shall bear the burden of the people with thee,
that
thou
bear it not thyself alone.
04:011:018 And say thou unto the people, Sanctify
yourselves against to
morrow,
and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the
ears
of
the lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
for it
was
well with us in Egypt: therefore the lord
will give you
flesh,
and ye shall eat.
04:011:019 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days,
nor five days, neither
ten
days, nor twenty days;
04:011:020 But even a whole month, until it come out
at your nostrils,
and
it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have
despised
the
lord which is among you, and have wept before
him, saying,
Why
came we forth out of Egypt?
04:011:021 And Moses said, The people, among whom
I am, are six hundred
thousand
footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh,
that
they may eat a whole month.
04:011:022 Shall the flocks and the herds be slain
for them, to suffice
them?
or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together
for
them, to suffice them?
04:011:023 And the lord said unto Moses, Is the
LORD’s hand waxed short?
thou
shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto
thee
or not.
04:011:024 And Moses went out, and told the people
the words of the lord,
and
gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people,
and
set
them round about the tabernacle.
04:011:025 And the lord came down in a cloud,
and spake unto him, and
took
of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the
seventy
elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit
rested
upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.


