27A young man ran and told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."


In Context

24 So Moses went out and told the people what the Lord had said. He brought together seventy of their elders and had them stand around the Tent.

25 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke with him, and he took of the Spirit that was on him and put the Spirit on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did not do so again.

26 However, two men, whose names were Eldad and Medad, had remained in the camp. They were listed among the elders, but did not go out to the Tent. Yet the Spirit also rested on them, and they prophesied in the camp.

27 A young man ran and told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."

28 Joshua son of Nun, who had been Moses' aide since youth, spoke up and said, "Moses, my lord, stop them!"

29 But Moses replied, "Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the Lord 's people were prophets and that the Lord would put his Spirit on them!"

Numbers 11:27 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

11:27And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

11:27And when they prophesied in the camp, there ran a young man, and told Moses, saying: Eldad and Medad prophesy in the camp.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

11:27And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:27And there ran a youth, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

11:27And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:27And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:27A young man ran, and told Moses, and said, |Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

11:27and the young man runneth, and declareth to Moses, and saith, 'Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

11:27And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.