¹² Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, ^(A)‘Carry them in your bosom, as a ^(B)nurse carries a nursing child,’ to the land ^(C)that you swore to give their fathers?

⁷ But we were ^(A)gentle^[a] among you, ^(B)like a nursing mother taking care of her own children.

⁵ And when the Lord brings you into ^(A)the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which ^(B)he swore to your fathers to give you, a land ^(C)flowing with milk and honey, ^(D)you shall keep this service in this month.

²⁴ And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but ^(A)God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land ^(B)that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

^3 (A)Sojourn in this land, and ^(B)I will be with you and will bless you, for ^(C)to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish ^(D)the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.

^19 (A)my little children, ^(B)for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ ^(C)is formed in you!

^11 (A)I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd ^(B)lays down his life for the sheep.