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Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders: and it happened that when the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.
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A Shared, Not Diminished, Spirit
Commentators explain that when God "took of the Spirit" from Moses, it didn't lessen Moses' anointing. Instead, God distributed a portion of the same divine gift to the seventy elders. This shows that God's spiritual gifts are not a zero-sum game; He can empower many leaders for His work without diminishing any single individual.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Occurrences at Kibroth-hattavah.
(Numbers 11:4) The mixt multitude — The word in the original resembles our “riff-raff” a…
19th Century
Anglican
In a cloud.—Hebrew, In the cloud.
And gave it to ... —Better, and put it upon, as in Lev…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the Lord came down in a cloud In a cloud of glory, or a glorious one, as the Targums; either in the same that we…
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We have here the fulfillment of God's word to Moses, that he should have help in the government of Israel. He gave His Spirit to the seventy elders…
