Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes by myself?
New American Standard Bible
How can I alone bear the load and burden of you and your strife?
King James Version
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
International Standard Version
How can I bear the burden of you and your bickering all by myself?
A Conservative Version
How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
American Standard Version
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Amplified
How can I alone bear the weight and pressure and burden of you and your strife (contention) and complaining?
Bible in Basic English
How is it possible for me by myself to be responsible for you, and undertake the weight of all your troubles and your arguments?
Darby Translation
How can I myself alone sustain your wear, and your burden, and your strife?
Julia Smith Translation
How shall I bear alone your burden and your lifting up and your strife
King James 2000
How can I myself alone bear your weight, and your burden, and your strife?
Lexham Expanded Bible
How can I bear you {by myself}, your burden and your load and your strife?
Modern King James verseion
How can I by myself bear your pressure and your burden and your strife?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
'How,' said I, 'can I myself alone bear the cumbrance, charge, and strife that is among you?
NET Bible
But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?
New Heart English Bible
How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
The Emphasized Bible
How should I carry by myself the fatigue of you and the burden of you and your controversies?
Webster
How can I alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
World English Bible
How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Youngs Literal Translation
'How do I bear by myself your pressure, and your burden, and your strife?
Themes
journey of israel through the Desert » To mount sinai » Judges appointed
Government » Mosaic » Administrative and judicial system
Israel » Organization » Government » Jethro
moses » People complain against moses and aaron
moses » Institutes a system of government
Reproof » Faithfulness in » Instances of » Moses, of the israelites
Strife » Causes of » General examples of
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 1:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Historical Prologue
11 May Yahweh, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times more, and bless you as He promised you. 12 But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes by myself? 13 Appoint for yourselves wise, understanding, and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will make them your leaders.
Cross References
Exodus 18:13-16
The next day Moses sat down to judge the people, and they stood around Moses from morning until evening.
Numbers 11:11-15
So Moses asked the Lord, “Why have You brought such trouble on Your servant? Why are You angry with me, and why do You burden me with all these people?
Deuteronomy 1:9
“I said to you at that time: I can’t bear the responsibility for you on my own.
1 Kings 3:7-9
“Lord my God, You have now made Your servant king in my father David’s place.
Psalm 89:19
and said: “I have granted help to a warrior;
I have exalted one chosen
2 Corinthians 2:16
To some we are an aroma of death
2 Corinthians 3:5
It is not that we are competent in