Seventy

“Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders—and you are to worship at a distance.”

“Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,”

“Then the LORD said to Moses, “Bring Me seventy of the elders of Israel known to you as leaders and officers of the people. Bring them to the Tent of Meeting and have them stand there with you.”

“So Moses went out and relayed to the people the words of the LORD, and he gathered seventy of the elders of the people and had them stand around the tent.”

“Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and He took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and placed that Spirit on the seventy elders. As the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but they never did so again.”

“After this, the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of Him to every town and place He was about to visit.”

“And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.”

“But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.”