But Moses said, “Please do not leave us. You know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.

The Lord said to Moses: “Bring me seventy of Israel’s elders who are known to you as leaders and officials among the people. Have them come to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with you.

For forty years—one year for each of the forty days you explored the land—you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.’

and rose up against Moses. With them were 250 Israelite men, well-known community leaders who had been appointed members of the council.

Then Moses said, “This is how you will know that the Lord has sent me to do all these things and that it was not my idea:

But if the Lord brings about something totally new, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them, with everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the realm of the dead, then you will know that these men have treated the Lord with contempt.”

Edom Denies Israel Passage

Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: “This is what your brother Israel says: You know about all the hardships that have come on us.

Now come and put a curse on these people, because they are too powerful for me. Perhaps then I will be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land. For I know that whoever you bless is blessed, and whoever you curse is cursed.”

the prophecy of one who hears the words of God, who has knowledge from the Most High, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who falls prostrate, and whose eyes are opened: