Numbers 11:12
Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant,’ to the land that You swore to give their fathers?
Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them out, that you should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers’?
Have I conceived all this people? have I brought them forth, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing-father carrieth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Carry them
- Isaiah 40:11; Ezekiel 34:23; John 10:11
- as a nursing
- Isaiah 49:15, 23; Galatians 4:19; 1 Thessalonians 2:7
- the land
- Genesis 13:15; Genesis 22:16, 17; Genesis 26:3; Genesis 50:24; Exodus 13:5