¹² Did I conceive all these people? Did I beget them, that You should say to me, ^(A)‘Carry them in your bosom, as a ^(B)guardian carries a nursing child,’ to the land which You ^(C)swore^[a] to their fathers?

⁷ But ^(A)we were gentle among you, just as a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

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

²⁴ And Joseph said to his brethren, “I am dying; but ^(A)God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land to the land ^(B)of which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

^3 (A)Dwell in this land, and ^(B)I will be with you and ^(C)bless you; for to you and your descendants ^(D)I give all these lands, and I will perform ^(E)the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

^19 (A)My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you,

^11 (A)“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.