Nombres 11:30

30 Et Moïse se retira au camp, lui et les anciens d'Israël.

Nombres 11:30 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 11:30

And Moses got him into the camp
From the door of the tabernacle, where he had been settling the elders in their office, and now betook himself to the camp of Israel, perhaps to look more particularly into the affair of Eldad and Medad, and settle that, and put them among the elders; for they were of them that were written, whose names were put down for elders in the paper Moses had written for that purpose, and in the summons that were given; or more generally to do public business, to exercise rule and government, with this new assistance granted him, as follows:

he and the elders of Israel;
he went in company with them, to impart to them the honour and glory they were to share with him in the government, as Aben Ezra observes; or they went together, to observe what would be done for the people, according to the promise of the Lord, to give them flesh; who had made good his word to Moses, by taking of his Spirit and putting it on seventy men for his assistance; the other remained to be done, and was done as follows.

Nombres 11:30 In-Context

28 Et Josué, fils de Nun, serviteur de Moïse depuis sa jeunesse, prit la parole et dit: Moïse, mon seigneur, empêche-les!
29 Moïse lui répondit: Es-tu jaloux pour moi? Puisse tout le peuple de l'Eternel être composé de prophètes; et veuille l'Eternel mettre son esprit sur eux!
30 Et Moïse se retira au camp, lui et les anciens d'Israël.
31 L'Eternel fit souffler de la mer un vent, qui amena des cailles, et les répandit sur le camp, environ une journée de chemin d'un côté et environ une journée de chemin de l'autre côté, autour du camp. Il y en avait près de deux coudées au-dessus de la surface de la terre.
32 Pendant tout ce jour et toute la nuit, et pendant toute la journée du lendemain, le peuple se leva et ramassa les cailles; celui qui en avait ramassé le moins en avait dix homers. Ils les étendirent pour eux autour du camp.
The Louis Segond 1910 is in the public domain.