10 Moses heard the people, family after family, crying 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, 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 woman carries a baby,’(C) to the land that You[b] swore to give their fathers?(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 11:10 Lit and it was evil in the eyes of Moses
  2. Numbers 11:12 One Hb ms, Sam, LXX, Syr, Tg read I

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