KJV King James Version
And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Numbers 11:27
And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
A young man ran and reported to Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”
WEB World English Bible
A young man ran, and told Moses, and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!”
ASV American Standard Version
And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and the young man runneth, and declareth to Moses, and saith, ‘Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.’
Surrounding context — Numbers 11
24 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.
25 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.
26 But there remained two [of the] men in the camp, the name of the one [was] Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they [were] of them that were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp.
27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, [one] of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.
29 And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the LORD’S people were prophets, [and] that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!
30 And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
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