¹² Did I conceive all these people? If I have fathered them,^[a] that you could say to me, ‘Carry them^[b] in your lap, just as a foster-father carries the suckling on the land that you swore an oath to their ancestors?’^[c]

¹² Did I conceive all these people? If I have fathered them,^[a] that you could say to me, ‘Carry them^[b] in your lap, just as a foster-father carries the suckling on the land that you swore an oath to their ancestors?’^[c]