Deuteronomy 1:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

At that time I said to you, I am not able to undertake the care of you by myself;

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 18:18 : 18 Your strength and that of the people will be completely used up: this work is more than you are able to do by yourself.
  • Num 11:11-14 : 11 And Moses said to the Lord, Why have you done me this evil? and why have I not grace in your eyes, that you have put on me the care of all this people? 12 Am I the father of all this people? have I given them birth, that you say to me, Take them in your arms, like a child at the breast, to the land which you gave by an oath to their fathers? 13 Where am I to get flesh to give to all this people? For they are weeping to me and saying, Give us flesh for our food. 14 I am not able by myself to take the weight of all this people, for it is more than my strength.
  • Num 11:17 : 17 And I will come down and have talk with you there: and I will take some of the spirit which is on you and put it on them, and they will take part of the weight of the people off you, so that you do not have to take it by yourself.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 1:12-13
    2 verses
    82%

    12 How is it possible for me by myself to be responsible for you, and undertake the weight of all your troubles and your arguments?

    13 Take for yourselves men who are wise, far-seeing, and respected among you, from your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

  • Num 11:12-14
    3 verses
    81%

    12 Am I the father of all this people? have I given them birth, that you say to me, Take them in your arms, like a child at the breast, to the land which you gave by an oath to their fathers?

    13 Where am I to get flesh to give to all this people? For they are weeping to me and saying, Give us flesh for our food.

    14 I am not able by myself to take the weight of all this people, for it is more than my strength.

  • Deut 1:10
    74%

    10 The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number.

  • Deut 1:18-20
    3 verses
    74%

    18 And at that time I gave you all the orders which you were to do.

    19 Then we went on from Horeb, through all that great and cruel waste which you saw, on our way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as the Lord gave us orders; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

    20 And I said to you, You have come to the hill-country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us.

  • Deut 1:42-43
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    74%

    42 And the Lord said to me, Say to them, Do not go up to the attack; for I am not among you, and you will be overcome by those who are against you.

    43 This I said to you, but you gave no attention and went against the orders of the Lord, and in your pride went up into the hill-country.

  • Deut 1:29
    73%

    29 Then I said to you, Have no fear of them.

  • Exod 18:18
    73%

    18 Your strength and that of the people will be completely used up: this work is more than you are able to do by yourself.

  • Deut 1:31-34
    4 verses
    73%

    31 And in the waste land, where you have seen how the Lord was supporting you, as a man does his son, in all your journeying till you came to this place.

    32 But for all this, you had no faith in the Lord your God,

    33 Who goes before you on your way, looking for a place where you may put up your tents, in fire by night, lighting up the way you are to go, and in a cloud by day.

    34 And the Lord, hearing your words, was angry, and said with an oath,

  • Deut 5:5
    72%

    5 (I was between the Lord and you at that time, to make clear to you the word of the Lord: because, through fear of the fire, you did not go up the mountain;) saying,

  • Deut 2:2
    72%

    2 And the Lord said to me,

  • Deut 1:22-23
    2 verses
    72%

    22 And you came near to me, every one of you, and said, Let us send men before us to go through the land with care and give us an account of the way we are to go and the towns to which we will come.

    23 And what you said seemed good to me, and I took twelve men from among you, one from every tribe;

  • Deut 1:37
    72%

    37 And, in addition, the Lord was angry with me because of you, saying, You yourself will not go into it:

  • Deut 9:23-24
    2 verses
    72%

    23 And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and take the land which I have given you; you went against the orders of the Lord your God, and had no faith in him, and would not give ear to his voice.

    24 From the day when I first had knowledge of you, you have gone against the word of the Lord.

  • Josh 1:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5 While you are living, all will give way before you: as I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not take away my help from you or give you up.

    6 Take heart and be strong; for you will give to this people for their heritage the land which I gave by an oath to their fathers.

  • Deut 3:23
    71%

    23 And at that time I made request to the Lord, saying,

  • Deut 4:21-22
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    71%

    21 And the Lord was angry with me because of you, and made an oath that I was not to go over Jordan into the good land which the Lord is giving you for your heritage:

    22 But death is to come to me in this land, I may not go over Jordan: but you will go over and take that good land for your heritage.

  • Deut 9:19
    71%

    19 For I was full of fear because of the wrath of the Lord which was burning against you, with your destruction in view. But again the Lord's ear was open to my prayer.

  • Deut 10:11
    71%

    11 Then the Lord said to me, Get up and go on your journey before the people, so that they may go in and take the land which I said in my oath to their fathers that I would give them.

  • Deut 3:18
    71%

    18 At that time I gave you orders, saying, The Lord has given you this land for your heritage: all the men of war are to go over armed before your brothers the children of Israel.

  • Deut 1:8
    71%

    8 See, all the land is before you: go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their seed after them.

  • Deut 2:17
    71%

    17 The word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Judg 6:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9 And I took you out of the hands of the Egyptians and out of the hands of all who were cruel to you, and I sent them out by force from before you and gave you their land;

    10 And I said to you, I am the Lord your God; you are not to give worship to the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living, but you did not give ear to my voice.

  • Deut 3:26
    71%

    26 But the Lord was angry with me because of you and would not give ear to my prayer; and the Lord said to me, Let it be enough, say no more about this thing.

  • Amos 2:10
    70%

    10 And I took you up out of the land of Egypt, guiding you for forty years in the waste land, so that you might take for your heritage the land of the Amorite.

  • Deut 18:16
    70%

    16 In answer to the request you made to the Lord your God in Horeb on the day of the great meeting, when you said, Let not the voice of the Lord my God come to my ears again, and let me not see this great fire any more, or death will overtake me.

  • Num 11:17
    70%

    17 And I will come down and have talk with you there: and I will take some of the spirit which is on you and put it on them, and they will take part of the weight of the people off you, so that you do not have to take it by yourself.

  • Num 13:1
    69%

    1 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Exod 33:3
    69%

    3 Go up to that land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, for fear that I send destruction on you while you are on the way.

  • Num 14:26
    69%

    26 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

  • Josh 14:8
    69%

    8 My brothers, however, who went up with me, made the heart of the people like water: but I was true to the Lord with all my heart.

  • Josh 23:9
    69%

    9 For the Lord has sent out from before you nations great and strong: and they have all given way before you till this day.

  • Exod 33:15
    69%

    15 And Moses said, If you yourself are not going with us, do not send us on from here.

  • Deut 1:26-27
    2 verses
    69%

    26 But going against the order of the Lord your God, you would not go up:

    27 And you made an angry outcry in your tents, and said, In his hate for us the Lord has taken us out of the land of Egypt, to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction.

  • Deut 9:28
    69%

    28 Or it may be said in the land from which you have taken them, Because the Lord was not able to take them into the land which he said he would give them, and because of his hate for them, he has taken them out to put them to death in the waste land.

  • Deut 9:13
    69%

    13 And then the Lord said to me, I have seen that this people is stiff-necked: