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Numbers 11:30

Then Moses and the leaders of Israel went back to the camp.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Government;   Moses;   Prayer;   Trouble;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Courts of Justice;   Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Manna;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Discontent;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Eldad;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Meat;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Moses;   Numbers, Book of;   Tabernacle;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elder;   Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Law of Moses;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Elders;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Sanhedrin;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Moshe got him into the camp, he and the Zakenim of Yisra'el.
King James Version
And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
Lexham English Bible
Then Moses and the elders of Israel were gathered to the camp.
New Century Version
Then Moses and the leaders of Israel went back to the camp.
New English Translation
Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.
Amplified Bible
Then Moses went back into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
New American Standard Bible
Then Moses returned to the camp, both he and the elders of Israel.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Moses returned into the hoste, he and the Elders of Israel.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Moses returned to the camp, both he and the elders of Israel.
Contemporary English Version
Then Moses and the seventy leaders went back to camp.
Complete Jewish Bible
(vii) Moshe and the leaders of Isra'el went back into the camp;
Darby Translation
And Moses withdrew into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
English Standard Version
And Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp.
George Lamsa Translation
Then Moses came into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
Good News Translation
Then Moses and the seventy leaders of Israel went back to camp.
Christian Standard Bible®
Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.
Literal Translation
And Moses withdrew into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So Moses and the Elders of Israel gat them to the hoost.
American Standard Version
And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
Bible in Basic English
Then Moses, with the responsible men of Israel, went back to the tent-circle.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Moyses gate hym into the hoast, he and the elders of Israel.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moses withdrew into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
King James Version (1611)
And Moses gate him into the campe, he, and the Elders of Israel.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses departed into the camp, himself and the elders of Israel.
English Revised Version
And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
Berean Standard Bible
Then Moses returned to the camp, along with the elders of Israel.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Moises turnede ayen, and the eldre men in birthe of Israel in to the tentis.
Young's Literal Translation
And Moses is gathered unto the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
Update Bible Version
And Moses got himself into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses withdrew into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
World English Bible
Moses got him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
New King James Version
And Moses returned to the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
New Living Translation
Then Moses returned to the camp with the elders of Israel.
New Life Bible
Then Moses and the leaders of Israel returned to the tents.
New Revised Standard
And Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then was Moses received back into the camp, - he and the elders of Israel.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moses returned, with the ancients of Israel, into the camp.
Revised Standard Version
And Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp.
THE MESSAGE
Then Moses and the leaders of Israel went back to the camp. A wind set in motion by God swept quails in from the sea. They piled up to a depth of about three feet in the camp and as far out as a day's walk in every direction. All that day and night and into the next day the people were out gathering the quail—huge amounts of quail; even the slowest person among them gathered at least sixty bushels. They spread them out all over the camp for drying. But while they were still chewing the quail and had hardly swallowed the first bites, God 's anger blazed out against the people. He hit them with a terrible plague. They ended up calling the place Kibroth Hattaavah (Graves-of-the-Craving). There they buried the people who craved meat.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Moses returned to the camp, both he and the elders of Israel.

Contextual Overview

24 So Moses went out to speak with the people. He told them what the Lord said. Then he gathered 70 of the elders together and told them to stand around the Tent. 25 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to Moses. He put on the 70 elders some of the same Spirit that was on Moses. After the Spirit came down on them, they began to prophesy. But that was the only time they ever did this. 26 Two of the elders, Eldad and Medad, did not go out to the Tent. Their names were on the list of elders, but they stayed in camp. But the Spirit also came on them, and they began prophesying in camp. 27 A young man ran and told Moses. The man said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in camp." 28 Joshua son of Nun said to Moses, "Moses, sir, you must stop them!" (Joshua had been Moses' helper since Joshua was a boy.) 29 But Moses answered, "Are you afraid the people will think that I am not the leader now? I wish that all the Lord 's people were able to prophesy. I wish that the Lord would put his Spirit on all of them!" 30 Then Moses and the leaders of Israel went back to the camp.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Numbers 16:25 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 11:1
There was a time when the whole world spoke one language. Everyone used the same words.
Genesis 11:2
Then people began to move from the East. They found a plain in the land of Babylonia and stayed there to live.
Genesis 11:3
Then they said to each other, "Let's make some bricks of clay and bake them in the fire." Then they used these bricks as stones, and they used tar as mortar.
Genesis 11:11
After that Shem lived 500 years. He had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:12
When Arphaxad was 35 years old, his son Shelah was born.
Genesis 25:21
Isaac's wife could not have children. So Isaac prayed to the Lord for her. The Lord heard Isaac's prayer, and he allowed Rebekah to become pregnant.
Genesis 29:31
The Lord saw that Jacob loved Rachel more than Leah, so he made it possible for Leah to have children. But Rachel did not have any children.
Judges 13:2
There was a man named Manoah from the city of Zorah. He was from the tribe of Dan. Manoah had a wife, but she was not able to have any children.
1 Samuel 1:2
Elkanah had two wives. One wife was named Hannah and the other wife was named Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah did not.
Psalms 113:9
He gives children to the woman whose home is empty. He makes her a happy mother. Praise the Lord !

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses got him into the camp,.... From the door of the tabernacle, where he had been settling the elders in their office, and now betook himself to the camp of Israel, perhaps to look more particularly into the affair of Eldad and Medad, and settle that, and put them among the elders; for they were of them that were written, whose names were put down for elders in the paper Moses had written for that purpose, and in the summons that were given; or more generally to do public business, to exercise rule and government, with this new assistance granted him, as follows:

he and the elders of Israel; he went in company with them, to impart to them the honour and glory they were to share with him in the government, as Aben Ezra observes; or they went together, to observe what would be done for the people, according to the promise of the Lord, to give them flesh; who had made good his word to Moses, by taking of his Spirit and putting it on seventy men for his assistance; the other remained to be done, and was done as follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Occurrences at Kibroth-hattavah.

Numbers 11:4

The mixt multitude - The word in the original resembles our “riff-raff,” and denotes a mob of people scraped together. It refers here to the multitude of strangers (see Exodus 12:38) who had followed the Israelites from Egypt.

Numbers 11:5

The natural dainties of Egypt are set forth in this passage with the fullness and relish which bespeak personal experience.

Numbers 11:6-7

There is nothing at all ... - literally, “Nought at all have we except that our eyes are unto this manna;” i. e. “Nought else have we to expect beside this manna.” On the manna see Exodus 16:15 note; on bdellium see Genesis 2:12 note.

Numbers 11:10

The weeping was general; every family wept (compare Zechariah 12:12), and in a manner public and unconcealed.

Numbers 11:11-15

The complaint and remonstrance of Moses may be compared with that in 1 Kings 19:4 ff; Jonah 4:1-3, and contrasted with the language of Abraham (Genesis 18:23 ff) The meekness of Moses (compare Numbers 12:3) sank under vexation into despair. His language shows us how imperfect and prone to degeneracy are the best saints on earth.

Numbers 11:16

Seventy men of the elders of Israel - Seventy elders had also gone up with Moses to the Lord in the mount Exodus 24:1, Exodus 24:9. Seventy is accordingly the number of colleagues assigned to Moses to share his burden with him. To it, the Jews trace the origin of the Sanhedrim. Subsequent notices Numbers 16:25; Joshua 7:6; Joshua 8:10, Joshua 8:33; Joshua 9:11; Joshua 23:2; Joshua 24:1, Joshua 24:31 so connect the elders with the government of Israel as to point to the fact that the appointment now made was not a merely temporary one, though it would seem to have soon fallen into desuetude. We find no traces of it in the days of the Judges and the Kings.

Elders of the people, and officers over them - In English idiom, “elders and officers of the people.” Both elders and officers appear in Egypt (Exodus 3:16; Exodus 5:6 ff): the former had headed the nation in its efforts after freedom; the latter were the subordinate, though unwilling, agents of Egyptian tyranny. The two classes no doubt were working together; and from those who belonged to either, perhaps from those who were both eiders and officers, the council of Seventy was to be selected.

Numbers 11:17

I will take of the spirit which is upon thee - Render rather separate from the spirit, etc.; i. e. they shall have their portion in the same divine gift which thou hast.

Numbers 11:25

They prophesied - i. e. under the extraordinary impulse of the Holy Spirit they uttered forth the praises of God, or declared His will. Compare the marginal references.

And did not cease - Rather, and added not, i. e. they prophesied at this time only and not afterward. The sign was granted on the occasion of their appointment to accredit them in their office; it was not continued, because their proper function was to be that of governing not prophesying.

Numbers 11:26

Of them that were written - i. e. enrolled among the Seventy. The expression points to a regular appointment duly recorded and permanent.

Numbers 11:29

Enviest thou for my sake? - (Compare Mark 9:38 ff) The other members of the Seventy had been with Moses (compare Numbers 6:16, Numbers 6:24-25) when the gift of prophecy was bestowed on them. They received “of the spirit that was upon him,” and exercised their office visibly through and for him. Eldad and Medad prophesying in the camp seemed to Joshua to be acting independently, and so establishing a separate center of authority.

Numbers 11:31

The southeast wind, which blew from the neighboring Elanitic gulf of the Red Sea, brought the quails Exodus 16:13.

Two cubits high - Better, “two cubits above the face of the ground:” i. e. the quails, wearied with their long flight, flew about breast high, and were easily secured by the people, who spread them all abroad for themselves Numbers 11:32, in order to salt and dry them. The quail habitually flies with the wind, and low.

Numbers 11:32

Ten homers - About 55 bushels. Compare Leviticus 27:16.

Numbers 11:33

Ere it was chewed - Better, ere it was consumed. See Numbers 11:19-20. The surfeit in which the people indulged, as described in Numbers 11:32, disposed them to sickness. God’s wrath, visiting the gluttonous through their gluttony, aggravated natural consequences into a supernatural visitation.

Numbers 11:34, Numbers 11:35

(Kibroth-hattaavah has been identified by Palmer with the extensive remains, graves, etc., at Erweis El Ebeirig, and Hazeroth “enclosures” with Ain Hadherah.)


 
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