10 Moses heard the people, family after family, weeping at the entrance of their tents. The Lord was very angry;(A) Moses was also provoked.[a] 11 So Moses asked the Lord, “Why have you brought such trouble on your servant? Why are you angry with me,[b] and why do you burden me with all these people?(B) 12 Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth so you should tell me, ‘Carry them at your breast, as a nursing mother carries a baby,’(C) to the land that you swore to give their ancestors?(D) 13 Where can I get meat to give all these people? For they are weeping to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’ 14 I can’t carry all these people by myself. They are too much for me. 15 If you are going to treat me like this, please kill me right now(E) if I have found favor with you, and(F) don’t let me see my misery[c] anymore.”

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  1. 11:10 Lit and it was evil in the eyes of Moses
  2. 11:11 Lit Why have I not found favor in your eyes
  3. 11:15 Alt Hb tradition reads your misery

10 Moses heard the people weeping according to their[a] clans, each at the doorway of their tents. Then Yahweh became very angry,[b] and in the eyes of Moses it was bad. 11 And Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you brought trouble to your servant? Why have I not found favor in your eyes, that the burdens of all these people have been placed on me? 12 Did I conceive all these people? If I have fathered them,[c] that you could say to me, ‘Carry them[d] in your lap, just as a foster-father carries the suckling on the land that you swore an oath to their ancestors?’[e] 13 From where do I have meat to give all these people? They weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat and let us eat!’ 14 I am not able to carry all these people along alone; they are too heavy for me. 15 If this is how you are going to treat me, please kill me immediately if I find favor in your eyes, and do not let me see my misery.”

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  1. Numbers 11:10 Hebrew “its”
  2. Numbers 11:10 Literally “the nose of Yahweh became very hot”
  3. Numbers 11:12 Hebrew “him/it”
  4. Numbers 11:12 Hebrew “him/it”
  5. Numbers 11:12 Or “fathers”