Mínshùjì 21:7

7 Bǎixìng dào Móxī nàli , shuō , wǒmen yuàn £¿ £¿ Yēhéhuá hé nǐ , yǒu zuì le . qiú nǐ dǎogào Yēhéhuá , jiào zhèxie shé líkāi wǒmen . yúshì Móxī wéi bǎixìng dǎogào .

Mínshùjì 21:7 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 21:7

Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, we have sinned,
&c.] Being bitten with serpents, and some having died, the rest were frightened, and came and made an humble acknowledgment of their sins to Moses:

for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee;
murmuring at their being brought out of Egypt, and because they had no better provision in the wilderness; concluding they should die there for want, and never enter into the land of Canaan, of which evils they were now sensible, and confessed them:

pray unto the Lord that he take away the serpents from us;
or "the serpent" ^F3, in the singular, which is put for the plural, as it often is; or the plague of the serpent, as the Targum of Jonathan, that it might cease, and they be no more distressed by them: they were sensible they came from God, and that none could remove them but him; and knowing that Moses was powerful in prayer, and had interest with God, they entreat him to be their intercessor, though they had spoken against him and used him ill:

and Moses prayed for the people;
which proves him to be of a meek and forgiving spirit; who, though he had been so sadly reflected on, yet readily undertakes to pray to God for them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 (vxn ta) "serpentem", Montanus; "hunc serpentem", Piscator,

Mínshùjì 21:7 In-Context

5 Jiù yuàn £¿ £¿ shén hé Móxī shuō , nǐmen wèishénme bǎ wǒmen cóng Āijí lǐng chūlai , shǐ wǒmen sǐ zaì kuàngyĕ ne , zhèlǐ méiyǒu liáng , méiyǒu shuǐ , wǒmen de xīn yànwù zhè dàn bó de shíwù .

6 Yúshì Yēhéhuá shǐ huǒ shé jìnrù bǎixìng zhōngjiān , shé jiù yǎo tāmen . Yǐsèliè rén zhōng sǐ le xǔduō .

7 Bǎixìng dào Móxī nàli , shuō , wǒmen yuàn £¿ £¿ Yēhéhuá hé nǐ , yǒu zuì le . qiú nǐ dǎogào Yēhéhuá , jiào zhèxie shé líkāi wǒmen . yúshì Móxī wéi bǎixìng dǎogào .

8 Yēhéhuá duì Móxī shuō , nǐ zhìzào yī tiaó huǒ shé , guà zaì gānzi shàng . fán beì yǎo de , yī wàng zhè shé , jiù bì de huó .

9 Móxī biàn zhìzào yī tiaó tóng shé , guà zaì gānzi shàng . fán beì shé yǎo de , yī wàng zhè tóng shé jiù huó le .