Numbers 11:14

New American Standard Bible

"I am not able to carry all this people by myself, because it is too burdensome for me.

Parallel Translations

Geneva Bible (1587)
I am not able to beare al this people alone, for it is too heauie for me.

George Lamsa Translation
I am not able to bear all this people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
I cannot take care of all these people alone. The burden is too heavy for me.

English Standard Version
I am not able to carry all this people alone; the burden is too heavy for me.

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

Bible in Basic English
I am not able by myself to take the weight of all this people, for it is more than my strength.

Contemporary English Version
This job is too much for me. How can I take care of all these people by myself?

Complete Jewish Bible
I can't carry this entire people by myself alone — it's too much for me!

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I am not able to bear all this people myself alone, because it is too heavy for me.

King James Version (1611)
I am not able to beare all this people alone, because it is too heauie for mee.

Amplified Bible
"I am not able to carry all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I shall not be able to bear this people alone, for this thing is too heavy for me.

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

Berean Standard Bible
I cannot carry all these people by myself; it is too burdensome for me.

Lexham English Bible
I am not able to carry all these people along alone; they are too heavy for me.

Literal Translation
I am not able, I alone, to bear all this people, for it is too heavy for me;

New Century Version
I can't take care of all these people alone. It is too much for me.

New English Translation
I am not able to bear this entire people alone, because it is too heavy for me!

New King James Version
I am not able to bear all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me.

New Living Translation
I can't carry all these people by myself! The load is far too heavy!

New Life Bible
I am not able to carry all these people alone. The load is too heavy for me.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Unable, am, I, by myself, to carry all this people, - for they are too heavy for me.

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

Revised Standard Version
I am not able to carry all this people alone, the burden is too heavy for me.

Good News Translation
I can't be responsible for all these people by myself; it's too much for me!

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

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
I mai not aloone suffre al this puple, for it is greuouse to me.

Young's Literal Translation
I am not able -- I alone -- to bear all this people, for [it is] too heavy for me;

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
I am not able to bear all this people alone, because [it is] too heavy for me.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I am not able to beare all this people alone, seyng it is to heauie for me.

Christian Standard Bible®
I can’t carry all these people by myself. They are too much for me.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I am not able to beare all this people alone, for it is to heuy for me.

New Revised Standard
I am not able to carry all this people alone, for they are too heavy for me.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I alone am not able to carry all this people, because it is too burdensome for me.

Legacy Standard Bible
I alone am not able to carry all this people because it is too heavy for me.

Contextual Overview

⁴ Now the rabble who were among them had greedy cravings; and the sons of Israel also wept again and said, "Who will give us meat to eat? ⁵ "We remember the fish which we used to eat for free in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; ⁶ but now our appetite is gone. There is nothing at all to look at except this manna!" ⁷ Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of bdellium. ⁸ The people would roam about and gather it and grind it between two millstones, or pound it in the mortar, and boil it in the pot and make loaves with it; and its taste was like the taste of cake baked with oil. ⁹ When the dew came down on the camp at night, the manna would come down with it. ¹⁰ Now Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, each one at the entrance of his tent; and the anger of the LORD became very hot, and Moses was displeased. ¹¹ So Moses said to the LORD, "Why have You been so hard on Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have put the burden of all this people on me? ¹² "Was it I who conceived all this people? Or did I give birth to them, that You should say to me, 'Carry them in your arms, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which You swore to their fathers'? ¹³ "Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me, saying, 'Give us meat so that we may eat!'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 18:18, Deuteronomy 1:9-12, Psalms 89:19, Isaiah 9:6, Zechariah 6:13, 2 Corinthians 2:16

Reciprocal: Exodus 5:22 - why is it Deuteronomy 1:31 - bare thee Job 6:9 - that it would Ecclesiastes 4:9 - are

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I am not able to bear all this people alone,.... The burden of government of them, to take care of them and provide sustenance for them; but he was not alone, for, not to take notice of the rulers and officers in the several divisions of the people that assisted and eased him in lighter matters, advised to by Jethro, Exodus 18:21, the Lord himself was with him in all matters of moment and difficulty; to whom he could apply at any time for advice, and who had promised to supply and did supply the people with suitable and proper provisions every day:

because [it is] too heavy for me; to answer the requests, redress the grievances, and supply the necessities of this people.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Occurrences at Kibroth-hattavah.

Numbers 11:4

The mixt multitude - The word in the original resembles our “riff-raff,” and denotes a mob of people scraped together. It refers here to the multitude of strangers (see Exodus 12:38) who had followed the Israelites from Egypt.

Numbers 11:5

The natural dainties of Egypt are set forth in this passage with the fullness and relish which bespeak personal experience.

Numbers 11:6-7

There is nothing at all ... - literally, “Nought at all have we except that our eyes are unto this manna;” i. e. “Nought else have we to expect beside this manna.” On the manna see Exodus 16:15 note; on bdellium see Genesis 2:12 note.

Numbers 11:10

The weeping was general; every family wept (compare Zechariah 12:12), and in a manner public and unconcealed.

Numbers 11:11-15

The complaint and remonstrance of Moses may be compared with that in 1 Kings 19:4 ff; Jonah 4:1-3, and contrasted with the language of Abraham (Genesis 18:23 ff) The meekness of Moses (compare Numbers 12:3) sank under vexation into despair. His language shows us how imperfect and prone to degeneracy are the best saints on earth.

Numbers 11:16

Seventy men of the elders of Israel - Seventy elders had also gone up with Moses to the Lord in the mount Exodus 24:1, Exodus 24:9. Seventy is accordingly the number of colleagues assigned to Moses to share his burden with him. To it, the Jews trace the origin of the Sanhedrim. Subsequent notices Numbers 16:25; Joshua 7:6; Joshua 8:10, Joshua 8:33; Joshua 9:11; Joshua 23:2; Joshua 24:1, Joshua 24:31 so connect the elders with the government of Israel as to point to the fact that the appointment now made was not a merely temporary one, though it would seem to have soon fallen into desuetude. We find no traces of it in the days of the Judges and the Kings.

Elders of the people, and officers over them - In English idiom, “elders and officers of the people.” Both elders and officers appear in Egypt (Exodus 3:16; Exodus 5:6 ff): the former had headed the nation in its efforts after freedom; the latter were the subordinate, though unwilling, agents of Egyptian tyranny. The two classes no doubt were working together; and from those who belonged to either, perhaps from those who were both eiders and officers, the council of Seventy was to be selected.

Numbers 11:17

I will take of the spirit which is upon thee - Render rather separate from the spirit, etc.; i. e. they shall have their portion in the same divine gift which thou hast.

Numbers 11:25

They prophesied - i. e. under the extraordinary impulse of the Holy Spirit they uttered forth the praises of God, or declared His will. Compare the marginal references.

And did not cease - Rather, and added not, i. e. they prophesied at this time only and not afterward. The sign was granted on the occasion of their appointment to accredit them in their office; it was not continued, because their proper function was to be that of governing not prophesying.

Numbers 11:26

Of them that were written - i. e. enrolled among the Seventy. The expression points to a regular appointment duly recorded and permanent.

Numbers 11:29

Enviest thou for my sake? - (Compare Mark 9:38 ff) The other members of the Seventy had been with Moses (compare Numbers 6:16, Numbers 6:24-25) when the gift of prophecy was bestowed on them. They received “of the spirit that was upon him,” and exercised their office visibly through and for him. Eldad and Medad prophesying in the camp seemed to Joshua to be acting independently, and so establishing a separate center of authority.

Numbers 11:31

The southeast wind, which blew from the neighboring Elanitic gulf of the Red Sea, brought the quails Exodus 16:13.

Two cubits high - Better, “two cubits above the face of the ground:” i. e. the quails, wearied with their long flight, flew about breast high, and were easily secured by the people, who spread them all abroad for themselves Numbers 11:32, in order to salt and dry them. The quail habitually flies with the wind, and low.

Numbers 11:32

Ten homers - About 55 bushels. Compare Leviticus 27:16.

Numbers 11:33

Ere it was chewed - Better, ere it was consumed. See Numbers 11:19-20. The surfeit in which the people indulged, as described in Numbers 11:32, disposed them to sickness. God’s wrath, visiting the gluttonous through their gluttony, aggravated natural consequences into a supernatural visitation.

Numbers 11:34, Numbers 11:35

(Kibroth-hattaavah has been identified by Palmer with the extensive remains, graves, etc., at Erweis El Ebeirig, and Hazeroth “enclosures” with Ain Hadherah.)