“And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.”
Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders; and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did not do so again — God descends in the cloud, the visible sign of God's presence, and redistributes Moses' spirit onto the seventy. When the spirit rests on them ('ve-yitnu aleihem), they prophesy ('yithnabbu'u), speaking God's words. But the prophecy is one-time only: 'they did not do so again.' This single prophetic act symbolizes the elders' receipt of the spirit, not their transformation into permanent prophets.
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