rsv Numbers:11:13-23
rsv@Numbers:11:13 @ Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me and say, `Give us meat, that we may eat.'
rsv@Numbers:11:14 @ I am not able to carry all this people alone, the burden is too heavy for me.
rsv@Numbers:11:15 @ If thou wilt deal thus with me, kill me at once, if I find favor in thy sight, that I may not see my wretchedness."
rsv@Numbers:11:16 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Gather for 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 to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you.
rsv@Numbers:11:17 @ And I will come down and talk with you there; and I will take some of the spirit which is upon you and put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you may not bear it yourself alone.
rsv@Numbers:11:18 @ And say to the people, `Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying, "Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt." Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you shall eat.
rsv@Numbers:11:19 @ You shall not eat one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days,
rsv@Numbers:11:20 @ but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have rejected the LORD who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, "Why did we come forth out of Egypt?"'"
rsv@Numbers:11:21 @ But Moses said, "The people among whom I am number six hundred thousand on foot; and thou hast said, `I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month!'
rsv@Numbers:11:22 @ Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to suffice them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?"
rsv@Numbers:11:23 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Is the LORD's hand shortened? Now you shall see whether my word will come true for you or not."
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