Números 11:15

15 Y si así me vas a tratar, te ruego que me mates si he hallado gracia ante tus ojos, y no me permitas ver mi desventura.

Números 11:15 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 11:15

And if thou deal thus with me
Let the whole weight of government lie upon me, and leave the alone to bear it:

kill me, I pray thee, out of hand;
take me out of the world at once, or "kill me now, in killing" ^F14; dispatch me immediately, and make a thorough end of me directly:

if I have found favour in thy sight;
if thou hast any love for me, or art willing to show me a kindness, to remove me by death, I shall take as one:

and let me not see my wretchedness;
or live to be the unhappy man I shall be; pressed with such a weight of government, affected and afflicted with the wants of a people I cannot relieve, or seeing them bore down with judgments and punishments inflicted on them for their sins and transgressions I am not able to prevail upon them to abstain from: so the Targum of Jerusalem,

``that I may not see their evil, who are thy people;''

so Abendana, and in the margin of some Hebrew copies, it is read,

``this is one of the eighteen words, the correction of the scribes;''

who, instead of "my wretchedness" or evil, corrected it, "their wretchedness" or evil; but Aben Ezra says there is no need of this correction.

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FOOTNOTES:

F14 (grh an yngrh) "occide me nunc occidendo", Drusius; "occide me jam, occide", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Números 11:15 In-Context

13 ¿De dónde he de conseguir carne para dar a todo este pueblo? Porque claman a mí, diciendo: "Danos carne para que comamos."

14 Yo solo no puedo llevar a todo este pueblo, porque es mucha carga para mí.

15 Y si así me vas a tratar, te ruego que me mates si he hallado gracia ante tus ojos, y no me permitas ver mi desventura.

16 Entonces el SEÑOR dijo a Moisés: Reúneme a setenta hombres de los ancianos de Israel, a quienes tú conozcas como los ancianos del pueblo y a sus oficiales, y tráelos a la tienda de reunión y que permanezcan allí contigo.

17 Entonces descenderé y hablaré contigo allí, y tomaré del Espíritu que está sobre ti y lo pondré sobre ellos, y llevarán contigo la carga del pueblo para que no la lleves tú solo.