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Numbers 11:12
Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers? (Numbers 11:12)
As a nursing father.
 Moses speaks of Jehovah as the Begetter of the children of Israel (Deut. 32:18), His problem children (Hosea 11:1-3), Compare this verse with other expressions of divine care and solicitude (Deut. 1:31; Isa. 40:11; 46:3; Hosea 11:3, 4).