Numbers 11:12 meaning and explanation

Did 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 11:12, Berean Standard Bible

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Moses is speaking to God in the wilderness, overwhelmed by the people's weeping for meat. His question is a protest: he did not father this nation, yet God has told him to carry them like a nurse carrying an infant all the way to the promised land.

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