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10 Then Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent; and athe anger of the Lord was greatly aroused; Moses also was displeased.  
11 aSo 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 the1 burden of all these people on me?  
12 Did I conceive all these people? Did I beget them, that You should say to me, a‘Carry them in your bosom, as a bguardian carries a nursing child,’ to the land which You cswore to their fathers?  
13 aWhere 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.’  
14 aI am not able to bear all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me.  
15 If You treat me like this, please kill me here and now—if I have found favor in Your sight—and ado not let me see my wretchedness!”  
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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Numbers 11:10-15

Moses said unto the Lord, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant, etc.—It is impossible not to sympathize with his feelings although the tone and language of his remonstrances to God cannot be justified. He was in a most distressing situation—having a mighty multitude under his care, with no means of satisfying their clamorous demands. Their conduct shows how deeply they had been debased and demoralized by long oppression: while his reveals a state of mind agonized and almost overwhelmed by a sense of the undivided responsibilities of his office.




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