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Numeri 11:15

Listen to Numeri 11:15
15 E se mi vuoi trattare così, uccidimi, ti prego; uccidimi, se ho trovato grazia agli occhi tuoi; e ch’io non vegga la mia sventura!"

Numeri 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.
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Numeri 11:15 In-Context

13 Donde avrei io della carne da dare a tutto questo popolo? Poiché piagnucola dietro a me, dicendo: Dacci da mangiar della carne!
14 Io non posso, da me solo, portare tutto questo popolo; è un peso troppo grave per me.
15 E se mi vuoi trattare così, uccidimi, ti prego; uccidimi, se ho trovato grazia agli occhi tuoi; e ch’io non vegga la mia sventura!"
16 E l’Eterno disse a Mosè: "Radunami settanta uomini degli anziani d’Israele, conosciuti da te come anziani del popolo e come aventi autorità sovr’esso; conducili alla tenda di convegno, e vi si presentino con te.
17 Io scenderò e parlerò quivi teco; prenderò dello spirito che è su te e lo metterò su loro, perché portino con te il carico del popolo, e tu non lo porti più da solo.
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