Numbers 11:12

12Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, aβ€˜Carry them in your bosom, as a bnurse carries a nursing child,’ to the land cthat you swore to give their fathers?

Deuteronomy 1:31

31and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the Lord your God dcarried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.’

Deuteronomy 32:10

10 β€œHe found him ein a desert land,
and in the howling waste of the wilderness;
he fencircled him, he cared for him,
he gkept him as the apple of his eye.
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