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11 And Moses sayde vnto the Lord: wherfore hast thou dealt cruelly with thy seruaunt? And wherfore haue I not found fauour in thy syght, seyng that thou puttest the weyght of all this people vpon me?
12 haue I conceaued all thys people? Or haue I begotten them:? hat thou shuldest saye vnto me? carie them in they bosome (as a nurse beareth the suckynge chylde) vnto the lande, which thou swarest vnto their fathers?
13 where shulde I haue fleshe, to geue vnto all thys people, which wepe before me, saying: geue vs flesh that we maye eate?
14 I am not able to beare all thys people alone, seying it is to heuy for me.
15 If thou deale thus with me, kyll me, I praye the, yf I haue founde fauour in thy syght, that I se not my wrechednes.
16 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses, gather vnto me .lxx. men of the elders of Israel, which thou knowest, that they are the elders of the people and officers ouer them: and thou shalt bryng them vnto the tabernacle of witnesse, that they maye stande there with the:
17 And I will come downe, and talke with the there, and take of the sprete which is vpon the, and put vpon them, and they shall beare the burthen of the people with the, lest thou be constrayned to beare it alone.
18 And saye thou vnto the people: be halowed agaynst tomorowe, and ye shall eate flesh: for your whyning is in the eares of the Lorde, seing ye sayd: who shall geue vs flesh to eate? we were happye in Egipt: therfore the Lorde wyll geue you flesh, and ye shall eate.
19 Ye shall not eate one daye nor two, nor fyue dayes, neyther ten, nor twentye dayes: