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Numbers 11:12Num.11.12

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?

KJV

Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Est-ce moi qui ai conçu ce peuple? est-ce moi qui l'ai enfanté, pour que tu me dises: Porte-le sur ton sein, comme le nourricier porte un enfant, jusqu'au pays que tu as juré à ses pères de lui donner?

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?

Patristic reading

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