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10 Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, all at the entrances of their tents. Then the Lord became very angry, and Moses was displeased.(A) 11 So Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? 12 Did I conceive all this people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom as a wet nurse carries a nursing child, to the land that you promised on oath to their ancestors’?(B) 13 Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they come weeping to me, saying, ‘Give us meat to eat!’(C) 14 I am not able to carry all this people alone, for they are too heavy for me.(D) 15 If this is the way you are going to treat me, put me to death at once—if I have found favor in your sight—and do not let me see my misery.”(E)

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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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Footnotes

  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”