Numbers 11:14

I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.

In Context

13Whence shall I have flesh to give to all this people? For they lament to me, saying: Give us flesh to eat.

15And if Thou do thus with me, kill me, I pray, if I have found mercy before Thee, that I may not see my wretchedness.

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Cross References

Exodus 18:18With weariness thou wilt be weary, thou and also this people who are with thee; for the thing is too weighty for thee, thou art not able to do it by thyself.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 11:5-16

4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? 5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: 6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes. 7 And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium. 8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and… Read the whole commentary →

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