he said, “Go away. The girl is not dead but asleep.” But they laughed at him.
NMVHe said to them: “Go outside all of you and stop weeping because the girl is asleep and not dead”. But in their eyes he was as one who jests. They were saying: ‘Have we not seen that she is dead’.
OJBRebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying, Go away! For the yaldah is not among the mesim — she sleeps! And they were making leitzonus (mockery, fun) of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
TCENThe said to them, “Go away, for the girl is not dead but sleeping.” And they began laughing at him.
T4TKnowing that he would cause her to live again, he said to them, “Go away and stop the funeral music and wailing, because the girl is not dead! She is just sleeping!” The people laughed at him, because they knew that she was dead.