¹² Did I conceive all these people? If I have fathered them,^[a] that you could say to me, ‘Carry them^[b] in your lap, just as a foster-father carries the suckling on the land that you swore an oath to their ancestors?’^{[c] 13} From where do I have meat to give all these people? They weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat and let us eat!’ ¹⁴ I am not able to carry all these people along alone; they are too heavy for me.