Deuteronomy 1:9

That's when I told you, “I can't take responsibility for all of you by myself.

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And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:

In Context

8Look, I'm giving this land to you. Go and take ownership of the land that the Lord promised he would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants who would follow them.”

10The Lord your God has increased your numbers so much that today there are as many of you as there are stars in the sky.

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Cross References

Numbers 11:11He asked the Lord, “Why have you made things so tough for me, your servant? Why are you so unhappy with me that you have placed on me the heavy responsibility for all these people?

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 1:2-9

Deuteronomy This book is a repetition of very much both of the history and of the laws contained in the three foregoing books, which repetition Moses delivered to Israel (both by word of mouth, that it might affect, and by writing, that it might abide) a little before his death. There is no new history in it but that of the death of Moses in the last chapter, nor any new revelation to Moses, for aught that appears, and therefore the style here is not, as before, The Lord spoke unto Moses, saying. But the former… Read the whole commentary →

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