Numbers:11:11-17
ukjv@Numbers:11:11 @ And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore have you afflicted your servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people upon me?
ukjv@Numbers:11:12 @ Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that you should say unto me, Carry them in your bosom, as a nursing father bears the nursing infant, unto the land which you sware unto their fathers?
ukjv@Numbers:11:13 @ Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
ukjv@Numbers:11:14 @ I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
ukjv@Numbers:11:15 @ And if you deal thus with me, kill me, I pray you, instantly, if I have found favour in your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
ukjv@Numbers:11:16 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know 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 you.
ukjv@Numbers:11:17 @ And I will come down and talk with you there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon you, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you bear it not yourself alone.