OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 14

Numbers 11:14

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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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Numbers 11:11–17

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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.’

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

15

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.”

16

The LORD said to Moses, “Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.

17

I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you don’t bear it yourself alone.

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