“Moses went out, and told the people the LORD’s words; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Numbers 11 contains 35 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.