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Thirdly, From the Hebrew Text something may be gathered; the word which our Translators render, I pray thee, is rendered, Now, ^(a)by Arias Montanus and Pagnin: the word signifies both, I pray thee, and now: I conceive our Translators render it. I pray thee, because now was once before, in the beginning of the verse: but the Chaldee Paraphrast renders it also now^(b). So Jonathan Targum render it now^(c); Blot me now out of the book of the just, in midst of which thou hast written my name. The Alexand. ⁴Gr. Manuscr. [Greek or Hebrew], blot me also out: but neither the Septuagint, nor this, have the word, I pray thee, nothing that answers the Hebrew word. The Samaritan Text hath not this word in it, but it hath another word in the Text; the Septuagint and that Text agree. If the word be translated now, which may well be, Moses being now in a great passion, his zeal raised for God, then this sense doth much confirm the interpretation: I am so little desirous to be a great nation, that if thou wilt blot out the name of this thy people, blot me now also out of that book thou hast written, I do not desire to live any longer.

Thirdly, From the Hebrew Text something may be gathered; the word which our Translators render, I pray thee, is rendred, Now, ^(a)by Arias Montanus and Pagnin: the word signifies both, I pray thee, and now: I conceive our Translators render it. I pray thee, because now was once before, in the beginning of the verse: but the Chaldee Paraphrast renders it also now^(b). So Jonatham Targum render it now^(c); Blot me now out of the book of the just, in midst of which thou hast written my name. The Alexand. ⁴Gr. Manuscr. , blot me also out: but neither the Septuagint, nor this, have the word, I pray thee, nothing that answers the Hebrew word. The Samaritan Text hath not this word in it, but it hath another word in the Text; the Septuagint and that Text agree. If the word be translated now, which may well be, Moses being now in a great passion, his zeal raised for God, then this sense doth much confirm the interpretation: I am so little desirous to be a great nation, that if thou wilt blot out the name of this thy people, blot me now also out of that book thou hast written, I do not desire to live any longer.