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Numbers 11:12

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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?

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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?

KJV

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?

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This verse in Numbers 11

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Did I conceive all these people

on Numbers 11:12-13

Moses answers in images of birth, “Did I conceive all these people?”, and of carrying them “as a nurse carries an infant”. Deuteronomy 1:31 uses the same figure of God, who carried Israel “as a man carries his son”.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them?....

The words behind it

24 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • הֶאָנֹכִ֣י¿ I

    heanokhiH595 →359 times

  • הָרִ֗יתִיdid I conceive

    haritiH2029 →

  • אֵ֚ת<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָעָ֣םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • הַזֶּ֔ה<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

  • אִם־or?

    ʾim-H518 →1069 times

  • אָנֹכִ֖יI

    ʾanokhiH595 →359 times

  • יְלִדְתִּ֑יהוּdid I give birth to it

    yelidtihuH3205 →496 times

  • כִּֽי־that

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • תֹאמַ֨רyou will say

    tomarH559 →5305 times

  • אֵלַ֜יto me

    ʾelaiH413 →5510 times

  • שָׂאֵ֣הוּcarry it

    saehuH5375 →656 times

  • בְחֵיקֶ֗ךָin bosom your

    vecheikechaH2436 →

  • כַּאֲשֶׁ֨רjust as

    kaasherH834 →5497 times

  • יִשָּׂ֤אhe carries

    yisa'H5375 →656 times

  • הָאֹמֵן֙<the> foster-father

    haomenH539 →106 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַיֹּנֵ֔קthe suckling-child

    haiyonekH3243 →

  • עַ֚לon

    ʾalH5921 →5755 times

  • הָֽאֲדָמָ֔הthe land

    haadamahH127 →225 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • נִשְׁבַּ֖עְתָּyou swore

    nishba'taH7650 →186 times

  • לַאֲבֹתָֽיו׃to ancestors its

    laavotavH1 →1212 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

14 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Isaiah 49:23Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in Me will never be put to shame.”17 worksIsaiah 40:11He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.6 worksExodus 13:5And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you shall keep this service in this month.5 works1 Thessalonians 2:7On the contrary, we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother caring for her children.5 worksGenesis 50:24Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”4 worksGenesis 26:3Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.3 works
The other 8 cross-references, with their words ▾
Psalms 103:13As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.3 worksJohn 10:11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.2 worksEzekiel 34:23I will appoint over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them. He will feed them and be their shepherd.2 worksIsaiah 49:15“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!2 worksGenesis 22:16–17saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,2 worksGalatians 4:19My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,2 worksGenesis 24:59So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, along with her nurse and Abraham’s servant and his men.2 worksGenesis 13:15for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.1 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Isaiah 49:23

    Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD;…

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 60:16

      You will drink the milk of nations and nurse at the breasts of royalty; you will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

    • Isaiah 60:14

      The sons of your oppressors will come and bow down to you; all who reviled you will fall facedown at your feet and call you the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy…

    • Isaiah 60:3

      Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.

    • Micah 7:17

      They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will crawl from their holes in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of…

    • Isaiah 45:14

      This is what the LORD says: “The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, along with the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you and will be yours; they will trudge…

  • Through

    Isaiah 40:11

    He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.

    it leads to

    • Revelation 7:17

      For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”

    • Psalms 23:1–6

      The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

    • Micah 5:4

      He will stand and shepherd His flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majestic name of the LORD His God. And they will dwell securely, for then His greatness will extend to…

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 11 →

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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