The Complaint of Moses

10 Now Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, each man at the doorway of his tent; and the anger of the Lord was kindled greatly, and [a]Moses was displeased. 11 (A)So Moses said to the Lord, “Why have You [b]been so hard on Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid the burden of all this people on me? 12 Was it I who conceived all this people? Was it I who brought them forth, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom as a [c](B)nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which (C)You swore to their fathers’?

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 11:10 Lit it was evil in Moses’ sight
  2. Numbers 11:11 Lit dealt ill with
  3. Numbers 11:12 Or foster-father