Numbers 11
This chapter seems a bit confusing to me. It tells of the choosing of seventy elders to help Moses bear the burden of leading the people but in this one Moses complains whereas in Exodus we hear of Jethro counseling Moses to get help from seventy elders. It seems like the same story but told differently, like the story of Isaac and Jacob both having the same dealings with the same king decades apart. I have no idea which telling is more accurate.
This chapter also begins with a vague punishment by the Lord and ends the same. Because of the lack of detail or clarity I wonder if it was a single event told by a rambling mind.
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