Numbers 11:12-17

¹²◄I am not their father./Am I their father?► RHQ Why have you told me to take care of them like a woman carries around her baby and ◄nurses it/gives it her milk► MET, RHQ? How can I take them to the land that you promised to give to our ancestors RHQ?

¹³Where can I get meat to feed all these people? They keep complaining to me, saying, ‘Give us some meat to eat!’

¹⁴I cannot carry all these people's burdens by myself! They are like a heavy load MET, and I cannot carry this very heavy load anymore.

¹⁵If you intend to act like this toward me, kill me now. If you are really concerned about me, be kind to me and kill me to end my misery of trying to take care of them!”

¹⁶Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Summon seventy men whom you know are leaders among the Israeli people. Tell them to stand with you in front of the Sacred Tent.

¹⁷I will come down and talk with you there. Then I will take some of the power of my Spirit that you have, and I will put that power on them also. They will help you to take care of some of the things that the people are concerned about, in order that you will not need to do it alone.