Deuteronomy - 1:12



12 How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

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Explanation and meaning of Deuteronomy 1:12.

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How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
I alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge of you and your differences.
How can I myself alone sustain your wear, and your burden, and your strife?
'How do I bear by myself your pressure, and your burden, and your strife?
How is it possible for me by myself to be responsible for you, and undertake the weight of all your troubles and your arguments?
Alone, I do not have the strength to endure your arbitrations and judgments and disputes.
Quomodo feram solus laborem vestrum, et onus vestrum, et lites vestras.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

How can I myself alone (i) bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
(i) Signifying how great a burden it is, to govern the people.

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.

"How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?" The burden and cumbrance of the nation are the nation itself, with all its affairs and transactions, which pressed upon the shoulders of Moses.

Your burden - The trouble of ruling and managing so perverse a people. Your strife - Your contentions among yourselves, for the determnination whereof the elders were appointed.

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