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Moses, with his mildness, took compassion upon his sister, upon whom this punishment had fallen, and cried to the Lord, “O God, I beseech Thee, heal her.” The connection of the particle נָא with אֵל is certainly unusual, but yet it is analogous to the construction with such exclamations as אֹוי (Jer 4:31; Jer 45:3) and הִנֵּה (Gen 12:11; Gen 16:2, etc.); since אֵל in the vocative is to be regarded as equivalent to an exclamation; whereas the alteration into אַל, as proposed by J. D. Michaelis and Knobel, does not even give a fitting sense, apart altogether from the fact, that the repetition of נָא after the verb, with נָא אַל before it, would be altogether unexampled.