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Deuteronomy 1:9
Deuteronomy 1:9 is verse 9 of Deuteronomy chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
At that time I said to you, “I cannot carry the burden for you alone.
King James Version
And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
World English Bible
I spoke to you at that time, saying, “I am not able to bear you myself alone.
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Deuteronomy 1:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible
7 Resume your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the foothills, in the Negev, and along the seacoast to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great River Euphrates.
8 See, I have placed the land before you. Enter and possess the land that the LORD swore He would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants after them.”
9 At that time I said to you, “I cannot carry the burden for you alone.
10 The LORD your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.
11 May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He has promised.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Exodus 18:18Surely you and these people with you will wear yourselves out, because the task is too heavy for you. You cannot handle it alone.
Numbers 11:11So Moses asked the LORD, “Why have You brought this trouble on Your servant? Why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid upon me the burden of all these people?
Numbers 11:12Did 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?
Numbers 11:13Where can I get meat for all these people? For they keep crying out to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’
Numbers 11:14I cannot carry all these people by myself; it is too burdensome for me.
Numbers 11:17And I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put that Spirit on them. They will help you bear the burden of the people, so that you do not have to bear it by yourself.