God Warns Moses and Aaron That Israel Are a Stubborn People

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 178:1

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"And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a charge concerning the children of Israel." This is what Scripture says: "Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that You should say to me, Carry them in your bosom?" (Numbers 11:12). Where had He spoken? At the time He said to him, "Go, lead the people" (Exodus 32:34). But this is still making the taught depend on what was not taught [the proof is no clearer than the thing proved]. Scripture therefore says, "And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a charge concerning the children of Israel." He said to them: Know that My children are obstinate, they are troublesome; on this condition you must accept them upon yourselves, that they will curse you and stone you with stones.

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