Números 12:11

11 Y dijo Aarón a Moisés: Te ruego, señor mío, no pongas ahora sobre nosotros pecado; porque locamente lo hemos hecho, y hemos pecado

Números 12:11 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 12:11

And Aaron said unto Moses, alas, my lord!
&c.] The word for "alas" is generally interpreted by the Jewish writers as a note of beseeching and entreating, as it is here by the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan,

``I beseech thee, my lord,''

or "upon me, my lord" ^F11, be all the blame; such was his tenderness to his sister, and the compassion he had on her; and such reverence and respect did he show to Moses his brother, though younger than he, because of his superior dignity as a prophet, and chief magistrate, and prime minister, and servant of the Lord, calling him "my lord":

I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us;
the punishment of it, bear not hard upon us, or suffer us to be punished in a rigorous manner, without interceding to the Lord for us, for the abatement of removal of it; such a powerful and prevailing interest he knew he had with God, that by his prayers their punishment would be mitigated, or not laid, or, if laid, removed:

wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned;
he owns they had sinned, but suggests, and so he would have it understood, that it was not through malice, and purposely and presumptuously, but through and ignorance, inadvertency and weakness, and hoped it would be forgiven.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 (yb) "in me", Montanus

Números 12:11 In-Context

9 Entonces el furor del SEÑOR se encendió en ellos; y se fue

10 Y la nube se apartó del tabernáculo; y he aquí que María era leprosa como la nieve; y miró Aarón a María, y he aquí que estaba leprosa

11 Y dijo Aarón a Moisés: Te ruego, señor mío, no pongas ahora sobre nosotros pecado; porque locamente lo hemos hecho, y hemos pecado

12 No sea ella ahora como el que sale muerto del vientre de su madre, consumida la mitad de su carne

13 Entonces Moisés clamó al SEÑOR, diciendo: Te ruego, oh Dios, que la sanes ahora