A reading from the book of Numbers.

Our God came down in the cloud and spoke to Moses.  Taking some of the Spirit that was on Moses, God bestowed it on the seventy elders that Moses had gathered there; and as the Spirit came to rest on them, they prophesied.

Now two others, one named Eldad and the other Medad, were not in the gathering but had stayed behind in the camp.  They too had been on the list, but had not gone out to the tent; yet the Spirit came to rest on them also, and they prophesied in the camp.  So when a youth came running to tell Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp,” Joshua, begot of Nun, who from youth had been Moses’ aide, cried, “Moses, stop them!” But Moses answered, “Are you jealous for my sake?  If only all of Our God’s people were prophets!  If only Our God would bestow the Spirit on them all!”

The Word of God recorded in the book of Numbers.