demander

Le souverain attendait qu’il lui demandât de grandes choses, mais l’homme resta assis, immobile, pétrifié, le regardant avec amour et émerveillement.
The sovereign expected him to ask for something big, but the man sat motionless, petrified, staring at him with love and wonder.
Il y avait un homme boiteux de naissance, qu'on portait et qu'on plaçait tous les jours à la porte du temple appelée la Belle, pour qu'il demandât l'aumône à ceux qui entraient dans le temple.
They would lay him every day at the gate of the temple, which is called the Beautiful, so that he might request alms from those entering into the temple.
17 Car vous savez que voulant, même après cela, hériter de la bénédiction, il fut rejeté, car il n'obtint pas un changement de résolution, quoiqu'il le demandât avec larmes.
For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
2 (LS) Il y avait un homme boiteux de naissance, qu'on portait et qu'on plaçait tous les jours à la porte du temple appelée la Belle, pour qu'il demandât l'aumône à ceux qui entraient dans le temple.
They would lay him every day at the gate of the temple, which is called the Beautiful, so that he might request alms from those entering into the temple.
Quoi que la princesse demandât, le roi ne pouvait le lui refuser.
Whatsoever the princess requested, the king could not deny her.
Hébr 12,17. Car sachez qu'ensuite, voulant obtenir la bénédiction de son père, il fut repoussé ; car il ne put le faire changer de résolution, quoiqu'il le demandât avec larmes.
For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
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