¹⁷ I will come down and speak with you^(A) there, and I will take some of the power of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them.^(B) They will share the burden of the people with you so that you will not have to carry it alone.^(C)

²⁵ Then the Lord came down in the cloud^(A) and spoke with him,^(B) and he took some of the power of the Spirit^(C) that was on him and put it on the seventy elders.^(D) When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied^(E)—but did not do so again.

²⁹ But Moses replied, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the Lord’s people were prophets^(A) and that the Lord would put his Spirit^(B) on them!”^(C)

⁵ ‘This is what I covenanted^(A) with you when you came out of Egypt.^(B) And my Spirit^(C) remains among you. Do not fear.’^(D)