Moses

Moses therefore came, and told the people the words of the Lord, and assembled seventy men of the ancients of Israel, and made them to stand about the tabernacle.

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

Forthwith Josue the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, and chosen out of many, said: My lord Moses forbid them.

But he said: Why hast thou emulation for me? O that all the people might prophesy, and that the Lord would give them his spirit!

And Moses returned, with the ancients of Israel, into the camp.

And Mary and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of his wife the Ethiopian,

And they said: Hath the Lord spoken by Moses only? Hath he not also spoken to us in like manner? And when the Lord heard this,

(For Moses was a man exceeding meek above all men that dwelt upon earth)

Immediately he spoke to him, and to Aaron and Mary: Come out you three only to the tabernacle of the covenant. And when they were come out,

But it is not so with my servant Moses who is most faithful in all my house:

For I speak to him mouth to mouth: and plainly, and not by riddles and figures doth he see the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak ill of my servant Moses?

He said to Moses: I beseech thee, my lord, lay not upon us this sin, which we have foolishly committed:

And Moses cried to the Lord, saying O God, I beseech thee heal her.

And the Lord answered him: If her father had spitten upon her face, ought she not to have been ashamed for seven days at least? Let her be separated seven days without the camp, and afterwards she shall be called again.

And the people marched from Haseroth, and pitched their tents in the desert of Pharan.

Send men to view the land of Chanaan, which I will give to the children of Israel, one of every tribe, of the rulers.

Of the tribe of Gad, Guel the son of Machi.

These are the names of the men, whom Moses sent to view the land: and he called Osee the son of Nun, Josue.

And they that went to spy out the land returned after forty days, having gone round all the country,

Amalec dwelleth in the south, the Hethite and the Jebusite and the Amorrhite in the mountains: but the Chanaanite abideth by the sea and near the streams of the Jordan.

And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying:

And when Moses and Aaron heard this, they fell down flat upon the ground before the multitude of the children of Israel.

And the Lord said to Moses: How long will this people detract me? how long will they not believe me for all the signs that I have wrought before them?

And Moses said to the Lord: That the Egyptians, from the midst of whom thou hast brought forth this people,

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: