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91 - Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow
The oldest stories of Numbers were about the crises of leadership in the Babylonian captivity, told from two distinct perspectives: One from a populist perspective, and the other from an elitist perspective. The combined stories appear as one in Numbers, chapter 11.
Shemaya's populist story (verses in ch 11):
11 So Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all these people on me?
12 Did I conceive all these people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom as a…
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