Numbers:11:11-17

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* So Moses said to the LORD , "Why have You afflicted Your servant ? And why have I not found favor in Your sight , that You have laid the burden of all these people on me ? * Did I conceive all these people ? Did I beget them , that You should say to me , "Carry them in your bosom , as a guardian carries a nursing child ,' to the land which You swore to their fathers ? * Where am I to get meat to give to all these people ? For they weep all over me , saying , "Give us meat , that we may eat .' * I am not able to bear all these people alone , because the burden is too heavy for me . * If You treat me like this , please kill me here and now--if I have found favor in Your sight--and do not let me see my wretchedness !" * So the LORD said to Moses : "Gather to Me seventy men of the elders of Israel , whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them ; bring them to the tabernacle of meeting , that they may stand there with you . * Then I will come down and talk with you there . I will take of the Spirit that is upon you and will put the same upon them ; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you , that you may not bear it yourself alone .

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