Mínshùjì 11:15

15 Nǐ zhèyàng daì wǒ , wǒ ruò zaì nǐ yǎnqián mĕng ēn , qiú nǐ lìshí jiàng wǒ shā le , bú jiào wǒ jiàn zìjǐ de kǔ qíng .

Mínshùjì 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.

---

FOOTNOTES:

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

Mínshùjì 11:15 In-Context

13 Wǒ cóng nǎli de ròu gĕi zhè bǎixìng chī ne , tāmen dōu xiàng wǒ kū haó shuō , nǐ gĕi wǒmen ròu chī ba .

14 Guǎnlǐ zhè bǎixìng de zé rèn taì zhòng le , wǒ dúzì dāndāng bú qǐ .

15 Nǐ zhèyàng daì wǒ , wǒ ruò zaì nǐ yǎnqián mĕng ēn , qiú nǐ lìshí jiàng wǒ shā le , bú jiào wǒ jiàn zìjǐ de kǔ qíng .

16 Yēhéhuá duì Móxī shuō , nǐ cóng Yǐsèliè de zhǎnglǎo zhōng zhāo jù qī shí gèrén , jiù shì nǐ suǒ zhīdào zuò bǎixìng de zhǎnglǎo hé guān zhǎng de , dào wǒ zhèlǐ lái , lǐng tāmen dào huì mù qián , shǐ tāmen hé nǐ yītóng zhàn lì .

17 Wǒ yào zaì nàli jiànglín , yǔ nǐ shuōhuà , yĕ yào bǎ jiàng yú nǐ shēnshang de líng fèn cì tāmen , tāmen jiù hé nǐ tóng dàng zhè guǎn bǎixìng de zhòng rèn , miǎndé nǐ dúzì dāndāng .