Verse 14
Numbers 11:14
New Living Translation
14
I can’t carry all these people by myself! The load is far too heavy!
Original Language Text
hebrew
לֹֽא אוּכַ֤ל אָנֹכִי֙ לְ/בַדִּ֔/י לָ/שֵׂ֖את אֶת כָּל הָ/עָ֣ם הַ/זֶּ֑ה כִּ֥י כָבֵ֖ד מִמֶּֽ/נִּי
English Translation
I cannot bear this entire people alone, for it is too heavy for me.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 11 Context
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Soon the people began to complain about their hardship, and the LORD heard everything they said. The...
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Then the people screamed to Moses for help, and when he prayed to the LORD, the fire stopped.
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After that, the area was known as Taberah (which means “the place of burning”), because fire from th...
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Then the foreign rabble who were traveling with the Israelites began to crave the good things of Egy...
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“We remember the fish we used to eat for free in Egypt. And we had all the cucumbers, melons, leeks,...
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But now our appetites are gone. All we ever see is this manna!”
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The manna looked like small coriander seeds, and it was pale yellow like gum resin.
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The people would go out and gather it from the ground. They made flour by grinding it with hand mill...
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9
The manna came down on the camp with the dew during the night.
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10
Moses heard all the families standing in the doorways of their tents whining, and the LORD became ex...
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11
And Moses said to the LORD, “Why are you treating me, your servant, so harshly? Have mercy on me! Wh...
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12
Did I give birth to them? Did I bring them into the world? Why did you tell me to carry them in my a...
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13
Where am I supposed to get meat for all these people? They keep whining to me, saying, ‘Give us meat...
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14
I can’t carry all these people by myself! The load is far too heavy!
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If this is how you intend to treat me, just go ahead and kill me. Do me a favor and spare me this mi...
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Then the LORD said to Moses, “Gather before me seventy men who are recognized as elders and leaders...
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I will come down and talk to you there. I will take some of the Spirit that is upon you, and I will...
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“And say to the people, ‘Purify yourselves, for tomorrow you will have meat to eat. You were whining...
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And it won’t be for just a day or two, or for five or ten or even twenty.
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You will eat it for a whole month until you gag and are sick of it. For you have rejected the LORD,...
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21
But Moses responded to the LORD, “There are 600,000 foot soldiers here with me, and yet you say, ‘I...
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22
Even if we butchered all our flocks and herds, would that satisfy them? Even if we caught all the fi...
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23
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Has my arm lost its power? Now you will see whether or not my word com...
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24
So Moses went out and reported the LORD’s words to the people. He gathered the seventy elders and st...
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And the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to Moses. Then he gave the seventy elders the same Spi...
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Two men, Eldad and Medad, had stayed behind in the camp. They were listed among the elders, but they...
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A young man ran and reported to Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!”
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Joshua son of Nun, who had been Moses’ assistant since his youth, protested, “Moses, my master, make...
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But Moses replied, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and...
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Then Moses returned to the camp with the elders of Israel.
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31
Now the LORD sent a wind that brought quail from the sea and let them fall all around the camp. For...
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So the people went out and caught quail all that day and throughout the night and all the next day,...
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But while they were gorging themselves on the meat — while it was still in their mouths — the anger...
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So that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah (which means “graves of gluttony”) because there they bur...
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From Kibroth-hattaavah the Israelites traveled to Hazeroth, where they stayed for some time.
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