Numbers 16:15

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And it is very displeasing to Moses, and he saith unto Jehovah, `Turn not Thou unto their present; not one ass from them have I taken, nor have I afflicted one of them.'

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּ֤חַר לְמֹשֶׁה֙ מְאֹ֔ד וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אֶל־יְהוָ֔ה אַל־תֵּ֖פֶן אֶל־מִנְחָתָ֑ם לֹ֠א חֲמ֨וֹר אֶחָ֤ד מֵהֶם֙ נָשָׂ֔אתִי וְלֹ֥א הֲרֵעֹ֖תִי אֶת־אַחַ֥ד מֵהֶֽם׃

Transliteration

And wayyiḥar to-Mōšeh very, and wayyōʾmer to-YHWH, do-not-tēpen to-their-minḥātām; not ḥămôr one from-them nāśāʾtî, and-not hărēʿōtî ʾet-one from-them

Grammar Details

• *wayyiḥar*: waw-consecutive + Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and it became hot/angry
• *Mōšeh*: proper noun, masculine singular - Moses
• *wayyōʾmer*: waw-consecutive + Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he said
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD/Yahweh
• *tēpen*: Qal imperfect jussive, 2nd masculine singular - may you regard/turn to
• *minḥātām*: noun, feminine singular construct + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their offering/gift
• *ḥămôr*: noun, masculine singular - donkey
• *nāśāʾtî*: Qal perfect, 1st common singular - I have taken/carried
• *hărēʿōtî*: Hiphil perfect, 1st common singular - I have done harm
• *ʾet*: direct object marker

Word Meanings

• *wayyiḥar*: became angry/was kindled
• *tēpen*: regard/turn to/respect
• *minḥātām*: their offering/gift/tribute
• *nāśāʾtî*: I have taken/lifted/carried away

Referenced Verses

• Gen 4:4-5 : 4 and Abel, he hath brought, he also, from the female firstlings of his flock, even from their fat ones; and Jehovah looketh unto Abel and unto his present, 5 and unto Cain and unto his present He hath not looked; and it is very displeasing to Cain, and his countenance is fallen.
• 2 Cor 7:2 : 2 receive us; no one did we wrong; no one did we waste; no one did we defraud;
• 2 Cor 12:14-17 : 14 Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children, 15 and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved. 16 And be it `so', I -- I did not burden you, but being crafty, with guile I did take you; 17 any one of those whom I have sent unto you -- by him did I take advantage of you?
• Eph 4:26 : 26 be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,
• 1 Thess 2:10 : 10 ye `are' witnesses -- God also -- how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,
• Exod 32:19 : 19 And it cometh to pass, when he hath drawn near unto the camp, that he seeth the calf, and the dancing, and the anger of Moses burneth, and he casteth out of his hands the tables, and breaketh them under the mount;
• Num 12:3 : 3 And the man Moses `is' very humble, more than any of the men who `are' on the face of the ground.
• Num 16:6-7 : 6 This do: take to yourselves censers, Korah, and all his company, 7 and put in them fire, and put on them perfume, before Jehovah to-morrow, and it hath been, the man whom Jehovah chooseth, he `is' the holy one; -- enough of you, sons of Levi.'
• 1 Sam 12:3-4 : 3 `Lo, here `am' I; testify against me, over-against Jehovah, and over-against His anointed; whose ox have I taken, and whose ass have I taken, and whom have I oppressed; whom have I bruised, and of whose hand have I taken a ransom, and hide mine eyes with it? -- and I restore to you.' 4 And they say, `Thou hast not oppressed us, nor hast thou crushed us, nor hast thou taken from the hand of any one anything.'
• Isa 1:10-15 : 10 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom, Give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah, 11 `Why to Me the abundance of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah, I have been satiated `with' burnt-offerings of rams, And fat of fatlings; And blood of bullocks, and lambs, And he-goats I have not desired. 12 When ye come in to appear before Me, Who hath required this of your hand, To trample My courts? 13 Add not to bring in a vain present, Incense -- an abomination it `is' to Me, New moon, and sabbath, calling of convocation! Rendure not iniquity -- and a restraint! 14 Your new moons and your set seasons hath My soul hated, They have been upon me for a burden, I have been weary of bearing. 15 And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full.
• Matt 5:22 : 22 but I -- I say to you, that every one who is angry at his brother without cause, shall be in danger of the judgment, and whoever may say to his brother, Empty fellow! shall be in danger of the sanhedrim, and whoever may say, Rebel! shall be in danger of the gehenna of the fire.
• Mark 3:5 : 5 And having looked round upon them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their heart, he saith to the man, `Stretch forth thy hand;' and he stretched forth, and his hand was restored whole as the other;
• Acts 20:33-34 : 33 `The silver or gold or garments of no one did I covet; 34 and ye yourselves know that to my necessities, and to those who were with me, minister did these hands;
• 1 Cor 9:15 : 15 And I have used none of these things; neither did I write these things that it may be so done in my case, for `it is' good for me rather to die, than that any one may make my glorying void;
• 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;