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322 Israel in a song and dance honoring Yahweh; and the Bible calls her "Miriam the Nebiah," "Miriam the prophetess." In yet another instance, when it was necessary to enlist the tribal leaders in administrating a multitude of 600,000, her Moses assembled seventy men from among the elders of the people and he stationed them around the Tent. And Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him; And bestowed from the spirit that was upon him on the seventy elders; And when the spirit rested upon them, they became Nabih 's (spokesmen)— then, but not thereafter. But two of the elders, the narrative reports, continued to be under the spell of the Divine Spirit, and were acting as Nabih's in the encampment. It was expected that they would be punished; but Moses saw it differently: "I wish the whole people would be Nabihs, that Yahweh would bestow His spirit upon them," he said to his faithful servant Joshua. The matter of the Nabih as a true spokesman for Yahweh must have needed further elucidation—witness the additional statements in Deuteronomy. Unlike other peoples who "listen to diviners and magicians," the Lord said, to the people of Israel He will provide a Nabih, one from their own brethren who "My words shall be in his mouth, who shall speak to them as I will command." Recognizing that some might lay claim to be speaking for God without it being so, Yahweh warned that such a false prophet shall surely die. But how would the people know the difference? "If there arise in the midst of thee a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he giveth thee a sign or a wonder," but it was only to induce you to "follow other Elohim, unknown to thee, and worship them—do not hearken to the words of such a Nabih," Yah- weh explained through Moses. There could be another test of the prophet's authenticity, it was explained (Deuteronomy chapter 18): "If that which the prophet was saying in behalf of Yahweh will not happen and shall not come to pass, mali- DIVINE ENCOUNTERS