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’?
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Numbers 11:12 in context
Numbers 11:9–15
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When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.
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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?
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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’?
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Where could I get meat to give all these people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’
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I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
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If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”
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