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

And Moses said, "The people whom I am among are six hundred thousand men on foot; yet You have said, "I will give them meat, that they may eat for a whole month.'

"Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a leader among them."

"Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: "When you have come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving to you,

I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God."

Then the LORD said to Aaron: "You shall have no inheritance in their land, nor shall you have any portion among them; I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.

So the donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your donkey on which you have ridden, ever since I became yours, to this day? Was I ever disposed to do this to you?" And he said, "No."

Then Balak said to Balaam, "Did I not earnestly send to you, calling for you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to honor you?"

And now, indeed, I am going to my people. Come, I will advise you what this people will do to your people in the latter days."

Exodus 18:13-27">[xr] "And I spoke to you at that time, saying: "I alone am not able to bear you.

except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and his children I am giving the land on which he walked, because he wholly followed the LORD.'

"And the LORD said to me, "Tell them, "Do not go up nor fight, for I am not among you; lest you be defeated before your enemies."'

"I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

But as for you, stand here by Me, and I will speak to you all the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which you shall teach them, that they may observe them in the land which I am giving them to possess.'

You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or similar drink, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.

And he said to them: "I am one hundred and twenty years old today. I can no longer go out and come in. Also the LORD has said to me, "You shall not cross over this Jordan.'

for I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. If today, while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against the LORD, then how much more after my death?

"Now see that I, even I, am He, And there is no God besides Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; Nor is there any who can deliver from My hand.

Yet you shall see the land before you, though you shall not go there, into the land which I am giving to the children of Israel."