Numbers 11:29
“And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!”
And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.
And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!
And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day’s journey on this side, and as it were a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
Cross-References
“Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?”
“I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.”
“Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,”
“Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?”
“But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.”