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Numbers 11:14 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. "
Numbers 11:14
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
12 Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
13 Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
15 And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.
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Numbers 11:1
"And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp."
Numbers 11:2
"And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched."
Numbers 11:3
"And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them."
Numbers 11:4
"And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?"
Numbers 11:5
"We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:"
Numbers 11:6
"But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes."
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