Deuteronomy 1:12

12 How can I bear you {by myself},^[a] your burden and your load and your strife?

Deuteronomy 1:12 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 1:12

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.

Deuteronomy 1:12 In-Context

10 Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and look; you [are] today as the stars of the heaven {in number}.

11 Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, may he add to you as you are [now] a thousand times, and may he bless you just as he {promised you}.

12 How can I bear you {by myself}, your burden and your load and your strife?

13 Choose for yourselves {wise and discerning and knowledgeable men} for [each of] your tribes, and I will appoint them as your leaders.'

14 "And you answered me, and you said, 'The thing you have said to do is good.'

Footnotes

• [a] Literally "to me alone"