Quotes about Responsibility
Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai was over the division of the tribe of Simeon,
— Numbers 10:19
and Eliasaph son of Deuel was over the division of the tribe of Gad.
— Numbers 10:20
Gamaliel son of Pedahzur was over the division of the tribe of Manasseh,
— Numbers 10:23
“I will not go,” Hobab replied. “Instead, I am going back to my own land and my own people.”
— Numbers 10:30
So Moses asked the LORD, “Why have You brought this trouble on Your servant? Why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid upon me the burden of all these people?
— Numbers 11:11
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
I cannot carry all these people by myself; it is too burdensome for me.
— Numbers 11:14
And I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put that Spirit on them. They will help you bear the burden of the people, so that you do not have to bear it by yourself.
— Numbers 11:17
So Moses went out and relayed to the people the words of the LORD, and he gathered seventy of the elders of the people and had them stand around the tent.
— Numbers 11:24
Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes
— Numbers 14:6
Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
— Numbers 14:26
In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.
— Numbers 14:34