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the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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King James Version (1611 Edition)

Deuteronomy 1:12

How can I my selfe alone beare your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Government;   Israel;   Judge;   Moses;   Reproof;   Strife;   Thompson Chain Reference - Unity-Strife;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Courts of Justice;   Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Strife;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Blessing;   Burden;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Judge (Office);   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Talmud;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Burden;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Burden;   Cumber;   Judge;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
King James Version
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Lexham English Bible
How can I bear you by myself, your burden and your load and your strife?
English Standard Version
How can I bear by myself the weight and burden of you and your strife?
New Century Version
But I cannot take care of your problems, your troubles, and your arguments by myself.
New English Translation
But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?
Amplified Bible
'How can I alone bear the weight and pressure and burden of you and your strife (contention) and complaining?
New American Standard Bible
'How can I alone endure the burden and weight of you and your strife?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Howe can I alone beare your combrance and your charge, and your strife?
Legacy Standard Bible
How can I alone bear the load and burden of you and your strife?
Contemporary English Version
But I cannot take care of all your problems and settle all your arguments alone.
Complete Jewish Bible
(ii) But you are burdensome, bothersome and quarrelsome! How can I bear it by myself alone?
Darby Translation
How can I myself alone sustain your wear, and your burden, and your strife?
Easy-to-Read Version
But I cannot take care of you and solve all your arguments by myself.
George Lamsa Translation
How can I myself bear alone your encumbrance and your burden and your strife?
Good News Translation
But how can I alone bear the heavy responsibility for settling your disputes?
Christian Standard Bible®
But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes by myself?
Literal Translation
How can I by myself bear your pressure and your burden, and your strife?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
How can I alone beare soche cobraunce, & charge, & stryfe amoge you?
American Standard Version
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Bible in Basic English
How is it possible for me by myself to be responsible for you, and undertake the weight of all your troubles and your arguments?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Howe can I my selfe alone, beare your cumbraunce, your charge, & your stryfe that is among you?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
How shall I alone be able to bear your labour, and your burden, and your gainsayings?
English Revised Version
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Berean Standard Bible
But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes all by myself?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y may not aloone susteyne youre causis, and birthun, and stryues; yyue ye of you men wise `in dyuyn thingis,
Young's Literal Translation
`How do I bear by myself your pressure, and your burden, and your strife?
Update Bible Version
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Webster's Bible Translation
How can I alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
World English Bible
How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
New King James Version
How can I alone bear your problems and your burdens and your complaints?
New Living Translation
But you are such a heavy load to carry! How can I deal with all your problems and bickering?
New Life Bible
How can I alone carry the weight of your troubles?
New Revised Standard
But how can I bear the heavy burden of your disputes all by myself?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
How should I carry by myself the fatigue of you and the burden of you and your controversies?
Douay-Rheims Bible
I alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge of you and your differences.
Revised Standard Version
How can I bear alone the weight and burden of you and your strife?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'How can I alone bear the load and burden of you and your strife?

Contextual Overview

9 And I spake vnto you at that time, saying, I am not able to beare you my selfe alone: 10 The Lord your God hath multiplied you, and beholde, you are this day as the starres of heauen for multitude. 11 (The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many moe as ye are, and blesse you as he hath promised you.) 12 How can I my selfe alone beare your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? 13 Take ye wise men, and vnderstanding, and knowen among your tribes, and I will make them rulers ouer you. 14 And ye answered me, and saide, The thing which thou hast spoken, is good for vs to doe. 15 So I tooke the chiefe of your tribes, wise men, and knowen, and made them heads ouer you, captaines ouer thousands, and captaines ouer hundreds, and captaines ouer fifties, and captaines ouer tennes, and officers among your tribes. 16 And I charged your Iudges at that time, saying, Heare the causes betweene your brethren, and iudge righteously betweene euery man and his brother, & the stranger that is with him. 17 Ye shall not respect persons in iudgement, but you shall heare the small aswell as the great: you shall not bee afraid of the face of man, for the iudgment is Gods: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it vnto me, and I will heare it. 18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should doe.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 1:9, Exodus 18:13-16, Numbers 11:11-15, 1 Kings 3:7-9, Psalms 89:19, 2 Corinthians 2:16, 2 Corinthians 3:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 18:17 - not good 1 Kings 11:28 - charge Galatians 6:2 - Bear

Cross-References

Genesis 1:10
And God called the drie land, Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called hee, Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:11
And God said, Let the Earth bring foorth grasse, the herbe yeelding seed, and the fruit tree, yeelding fruit after his kinde, whose seed is in it selfe, vpon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:24
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the liuing creature after his kinde, cattell, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kinde: and it was so.
Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let vs make man in our Image, after our likenesse: and let them haue dominion ouer the fish of the sea, and ouer the foule of the aire, and ouer the cattell, and ouer all the earth, and ouer euery creeping thing that creepeth vpon the earth.
Isaiah 61:11
For as the earth bringeth foorth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sowen in it, to spring foorth: so the Lord God will cause righteousnes and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
Mark 4:28
For the earth bringeth foorth fruite of herselfe, first the blade, then the eare, after that the full corne in the eare.
Luke 6:44
For euery tree is knowen by his owne fruit: for of thornes men doe not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
2 Corinthians 9:10
Now he that ministreth seede to the sower, both minister bread for your foode, and multiply your seede sowen, and encrease the fruites of your righteousnesse)
Galatians 6:7
Be not deceiued, God is not mocked: for whatsoeuer a man soweth, that shall he also reape.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?] His meaning is, that he could not hear and try all their causes, and determine all their law suits, and decide the strifes and controversies which arose between them; it was too heavy for him, and brought too much trouble and incumbrance upon him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This appointment of the “captains” (compare Exodus 18:21 ff) must not be confounded with that of the elders in Numbers 11:16 ff. The former would number 78,600; the latter were 70 only.

A comparison between this passage and that in Exodus makes it obvious that Moses is only touching on certain parts of the whole history, without regard to order of time, but with a special purpose. This important arrangement for the good government of the people took place before they left Horeb to march direct to the promised land. This fact sets more clearly before us the perverseness and ingratitude of the people, to which the orator next passes; and shows, what he was anxious to impress, that the fault of the 40 years’ delay rested only with themselves!


 
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