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But Moses answered: “Are you jealous for my sake? I only wish that all YWHW’s people were prophets and that YHWH would put his Spirit on all of them!”

(Numbers 3:29)

Tell Aaron and his sons: “This is how you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them:

May YHWH bless you and guard you.
May YHWH make Her face shine on you and be gracious to you.
May YHWH turn Her face towards you and give you peace.”

So they will put my name on the people, and I will bless them.

(Numbers 6:23-27)

So Moses went out and told the people the words of YHWHit is . And he gathered seventy elders of the people and placed them around the tent. Then YHWH 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 as soon as the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied. And this did never happen again.

Now two elders remained in the camp, one named Eldad and the other named Medad, and the Spirit rested on them. They were among those registered as elders, but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp. And a young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.” And Joshua the son of Nun, the assistant of Moses from his youth, said, “My lord Moses, stop them.” But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all YHWH’s people were prophets, that YHWH would put his Spirit on all of them!”

(Numbers 11:24-29)

I have forgiven them because of what you’ve said. But just as I live, and just as the whole earth will be filled with the importance of JHVH. Because they’ve tested me these ten times and never listened to my voice, none of those people who saw my importance and watched my miracles that I did in Egypt and in the desert will ever see the land that I promised to their ancestors. Those who spurned me won’t see it. Now as to my servant Caleb, because a different state of mind is in him and he has remained true to me, I’m going to bring him into the land that he explored, and his descendants are to inherit it.

(Num 14:20-24)

The community should have the same rules for you and for the migrants residing among you. This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. You and the migrants shall be the same before YHWH. The same laws and regulations will apply both to you and to the migrants who live among you.”

(Num 15:15-16)

Then YHWH said to Moses: “Speak to the comrades and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into Canaan, select some towns to be your cities of refuge, to which a person who has killed someone accidentally may flee. They will be places of refuge from the avenger, so that anyone accused of murder may not die before they stand trial before the assembly. These six towns you give will be your cities of refuge. Give three on this side of the Jordan and three in Canaan as cities of refuge. These six towns will be a place of refuge for Israelites and for foreigners residing among them, so that anyone who has killed another accidentally can flee there.”

(Num 35:9-15)