Catholic Public Domain Version
"Alone, I do not have the strength to endure your arbitrations and judgments and disputes. "
— Deuteronomy 1:12, Catholic Public Domain Version
“How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?”
“How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? ”
“How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?”
“But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?”
“I alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge of you and your differences.”
“How is it possible for me by myself to be responsible for you, and undertake the weight of all your troubles and your arguments?”
“How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?”
And I said to you, at that time:
‘I alone am not able to sustain you. For the Lord, your God, has multiplied you, and you are today like the stars of heaven, very many.
May the Lord, the God of your fathers, add to this number many thousands more, and may he bless you, just as he has said.
Alone, I do not have the strength to endure your arbitrations and judgments and disputes.
Offer, from among you, wise and experienced men, those whose conversation has been proven within your tribes, so that I may appoint them as your rulers.’
Then you responded to me: ‘What you intend to do is a good thing.’
And so, I took from your tribes men, wise and noble, and I appointed them as rulers, as tribunes and centurions, and as leaders over fifty and over ten, who would teach you each thing.