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Numbers 14:27
New English Translation
Numbers 14:27
New English Translation
27 “How long must I bear[a] with this evil congregation[b] that murmurs against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites that they murmured against me.
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- Numbers 14:27 tn The figure is aposiopesis, or sudden silence. The main verb is deleted from the line, “how long…this evil community.” The intensity of the emotion is the reason for the ellipsis.
- Numbers 14:27 sn It is worth mentioning in passing that this is one of the Rabbinic proof texts for having at least ten men to form a congregation and have prayer. If God called ten men (the bad spies) a “congregation,” then a congregation must have ten men. But here the word “community/congregation” refers in this context to the people of Israel as a whole, not just to the ten spies.
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