Numbers 11:15
What does Numbers 11:15 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 11:15 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and if thus Thou art doing to me--slay me, I pray Thee; slay, if I have found grace in thine eyes, and let me not look on mine affliction.'
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752But if it seem unto thee otherwise, I beseech thee to kill me, and let me find grace in thy eyes, that I be not afflicted with so great evils.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And if thou deal thus with me, slay me, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, that I may not behold my wretchedness.
Context
v.14I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
v.15This passage
v.16And Jehovah said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with thee.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 3:20
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;
- Jonah 4:8
And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
- Job 7:15
So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than these my bones.
- Exodus 32:32
Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
- Jeremiah 20:18
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
- Zephaniah 3:15
Jehovah hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the King of Israel, even Jehovah, is in the midst of thee; thou shalt not fear evil any more.
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