John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 11:15

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And if thou deal thus with me, etc.] 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” f128; 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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