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What does Deuteronomy 1:9 mean?
"I spoke to you at that time, saying, “I am not able to bear you myself alone."
— Deuteronomy 1:9 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
“Yahweh our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, ‘You have lived long enough at this mountain.
Turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all the places near there, in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the lowland, in the South, by the seashore, in the land of the Canaanites, and in Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
Behold, I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.’”
I spoke to you at that time, saying, “I am not able to bear you myself alone.
Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the stars of the sky for multitude.
Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!
How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?
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