OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 11

Numbers 11:11

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Moses said to the LORD, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?

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Numbers 11:8–14

8

The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil.

9

When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.

10

Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and the LORD’s anger burned greatly; and Moses was displeased.

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Moses said to the LORD, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?

12

Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them out, that you should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers’?

13

Where could I get meat to give all these people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’

14

I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.

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