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Numbers 11:11
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11 And Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you afflicted[a] your servant? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that[b] you lay the burden of this entire people on me?

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  1. Numbers 11:11 tn The verb is the Hiphil of רָעַע (raʿaʿ, “to be evil”). Moses laments (with the rhetorical question) that God seems to have caused him harm.
  2. Numbers 11:11 tn The infinitive construct with the preposition is expressing the result of not finding favor with God (see R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 12-13, §57). What Moses is claiming is that because he has been given this burden God did not show him favor.
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