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Moses Appoints Leaders

Deuteronomy 1:12

In 11 translations

BSB
But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes all by myself?
KJV
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
WEB
How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?
ASV
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
LSV
How do I bear your pressure, and your burden, and your strife by myself?
YLT
'How do I bear by myself your pressure, and your burden, and your strife?
DBY
How can I myself alone sustain your wear, and your burden, and your strife?
DRC
I alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge of you and your differences.
GNV
Howe can I alone beare your combrance and your charge, and your strife?
JPS
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
LXXE
How shall I alone be able to bear your labour, and your burden, and your gainsayings?

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
אֵיכָ֥ה אֶשָּׂ֖א לְבַדִּ֑י טָרְחֲכֶ֥ם וּמַֽשַּׂאֲכֶ֖ם וְרִֽיבְכֶֽם׃
LXX-Br
Πῶς δυνήσομαι μόνος φέρειν τὸν κόπον ὑμῶν καὶ τὴν ὑπόστασιν ὑμῶν καὶ τὰς ἀντιλογίας ὑμῶν;

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • 2 Corinthians 3:5Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.
  • Deuteronomy 1:9At that time I said to you, “I cannot carry the burden for you alone.
  • Psalms 89:19You once spoke in a vision; to Your godly ones You said, “I have bestowed help on a warrior; I have exalted one chosen from the people.
  • 1 Kings 3:7–9And now, O LORD my God, You have made Your servant king in my father David’s place. But I am only a little child, not knowing how to go out or come in. Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people…
  • Numbers 11:11–15So Moses asked the LORD, “Why have You brought this trouble on Your servant? Why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid upon me the burden of all these people? Did I conceive all these people? Did I…
  • 2 Corinthians 2:16To the one, we are an odor of death and demise; to the other, a fragrance that brings life. And who is qualified for such a task?
  • Exodus 18:13–16The next day Moses took his seat to judge the people, and they stood around him from morning until evening. When his father-in-law saw all that Moses was doing for the people, he asked, “What is this that you are doing…

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