Numbers 11:27
And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
Numbers 11:27 in other translations
| BSB | A young man ran and reported to Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.” |
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| WEB | A young man ran, and told Moses, and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!” |
| ASV | And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. |
| YLT | and the young man runneth, and declareth to Moses, and saith, ‘Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.' |
| DARBY | And there ran a youth, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp. |
| BBE | And a young man went running to Moses and said, Eldad and Medad are acting as prophets in the tent-circle. |
| Webster | And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. |
What does Numbers 11:27 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 11:26-29
26-29. But there remained two of the men in the camp--They did not repair with the rest to the tabernacle, either from modesty in shrinking from the assumption of a public office, or being prevented by some ceremonial defilement. They, however, received the gifts of the Spirit as well as their brethren. And when Moses was urged to forbid their prophesying, his answer displayed a noble disinterestedness as well as…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 11:24-30
We have here the fulfilment of God's word to Moses, that he should have help in the government of Israel. He gave of his Spirit to the seventy elders. They discoursed to the people of the things of God, so that all who heard them might say, that God was with them of a truth. Two of the elders, Eldad and Medad, went not out unto the tabernacle, as the rest, being sensible of their own weakness and unworthiness. But…
Numbers 11:27 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Numbers 11:26
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.
- Numbers 11:27
And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
- Numbers 11:28
And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.
Numbers 11:27 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y corrió un mozo, y dió aviso á Moisés, y dijo: Eldad y Medad profetizan en el campo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et un jeune homme courut et rapporta cela à Moïse, disant: Eldad et Médad prophétisent dans le camp. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Da lief ein Jüngling hin und berichtete es Mose und sprach: Eldad und Medad weissagen im Lager. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Cumque prophetarent in castris, cucurrit puer, et nuntiavit Moysi, dicens: Eldad et Medad prophetant in castris. |