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11 And Moses said to the Lord, Why have You afflicted Your servant, and why have I not found grace in Your sight, that You should lay the weight of this people upon me?
12 Have I conceived all this people, or have I born them? That You say to me, Take them into your bosom, as a nurse would take her suckling, into the land which You swore to their fathers?
13 Where am I to get the meat to give to all these people? For they weep to me, saying, Give us meat, that we may eat.
14 I shall not be able to bear these people alone, for this thing is too heavy for me.
15 And if You do thus to me, slay me utterly, if I have found favor with You, that I may not see my affliction.
16 And the Lord said to Moses, Gather Me seventy men from the elders of Israel, whom you yourself know that they are the elders of the people, and their scribes; and you shall bring them to the tabernacle of witness, and they shall stand there with you.
17 And I will go down, and speak there with you; and I will take of the spirit that is upon you, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear together with you the burden of the people, and you shall not bear them alone.
18 And to the people you shall say, Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you wept before the Lord, saying, Who shall give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt: and the Lord shall allow you to eat meat, and you shall eat meat.
19 You shall not eat one day, nor two, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days;