Devarim 1:12

12 How can I myself alone bear your problems, and your massa and your strife?

Devarim 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.

Devarim 1:12 In-Context

10 Hashem Eloheichem hath multiplied you, and, see, ye are today as numerous as the kokhavei HaShomayim.

11 (Hashem Elohei Avoteichem increase you a thousand times over and bless you, as He hath promised you!)

12 How can I myself alone bear your problems, and your massa and your strife?

13 Take you anashim chachamim, men of wisdom and understanding, who are known among your tribes, and I will set them over you.

14 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is tov for us to do.