Numbers 11:11-15 ▼

11 And Moses says to YHWH, “Why have You done evil to Your servant? And why have I not found grace in Your eyes—to put the burden of all this people on me?

12 I—have I conceived all this people? I—have I begotten it, that You say to me, Carry it in your bosom, as the one supporting carries the nursing suckling, to the ground which You have sworn to its fathers?

13 From where do I have flesh to give to all this people? For they weep to me, saying, Give flesh to us, and we eat.

14 I am not able—I alone—to bear all this people, for [it is] too heavy for me;

15 and if thus You are doing to me—please slay me; slay, if I have found grace in your eyes, and do not let me look on my affliction.”