SEV Biblia, Chapter 16:15
Entonces Moisés se enojó en gran manera, y dijo al SEÑOR: No mires a su presente; ni aun un asno he tomado de ellos, ni a ninguno de ellos he hecho mal.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Numbers 16:15
Verse 15. Respect not thou their offering] There was no danger of this: they wished to set up a priesthood and a sacrifical system of their own; and God never has blessed, and never can bless, any scheme of salvation which is not of his own appointment. Man is ever supposing that he can mend his Maker's work, or that he can make one of his own that will do in its place.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 15. And Moses was very wroth , etc.] Or “it heated Moses exceedingly” f226 ; made him very angry, caused him to burn with wrath against them; even the speech they made, the words they uttered, not so much on account of their ill usage of him, as for the dishonour cast upon the Lord: and said unto the Lord, respect not thou their offering ; their “Minchah”, the word is commonly used for the meat or bread offering. Aben Ezra observes, that Dathan and Abiram were great men, and had offered such kind of offerings before this fact; and therefore Moses desires that the Lord would have no respect to any they had offered, but have respect to him, who had never injured any of them. Jarchi gives it as the sense of some, that whereas these men had a part in the daily sacrifices of the congregation (with which a meat offering always went), the request is, that it might not be received with acceptance by the Lord; but he himself thinks it is to be understood of the offering of incense they were to offer on the morrow; and Moses desires that God would show his disapprobation of it, and which is the common interpretation. The Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem render it, “their gift”: I have not taken one ass from them ; either by force, or as a bribe, or by way of gratuity for any service done them; the sense is, that he had not taken from them the least thing in the world, anything of the meanest worth and value, on any consideration. Aben Ezra interprets the word “take”, of taking and laying any burden upon an ass of theirs; so far was he from laying any burdens on them, and using them in a cruel and tyrannical manner, as they suggested, that he never laid the least burden on any ass of theirs, and much less on them: neither have I hurt any of them ; never did any injury to the person or property of anyone of them, but, on the contrary, had done them many good offices.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 12-15 - Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram to bring their complaints; but the would not obey. They bring very false charges against Moses. Thos often fall under the heaviest censures, who in truth deserve the highest praise. Moses, though the meekest man, yet, finding God reproached in him, was very wroth; he could not bear to see the people ruining themselves. He appeals to God as to his own integrity. He bad them appear with Aaron next morning, at the time of offering the morning incense. Korah undertook thus to appear. Proud ambitious men while projecting their own advancement, often hurry on their ow shameful fall.
Original Hebrew
ויחר 2734 למשׁה 4872 מאד 3966 ויאמר 559 אל 413 יהוה 3068 אל 408 תפן 6437 אל 413 מנחתם 4503 לא 3808 חמור 2543 אחד 259 מהם 1992 נשׂאתי 5375 ולא 3808 הרעתי 7489 את 853 אחד 259 מהם׃ 1992
