Numbers 20:3 “The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished wit…”

Numbers 20:3

The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!

World English Bible

The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!

American Standard Version

And the people strove with Moses, and spake, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!

Geneva Bible 1599

And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God we had perished, when our brethren died before the Lord.

Darby Translation

And the people contended with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!

Young's Literal Translation

and the people strive with Moses, and speak, saying, 'And oh that we had expired when our brethren expired before Jehovah!

Bible in Basic English

And the people were angry with Moses and said, If only death had overtaken us when our brothers came to their death before the Lord!

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Cross references

“God”

Exodus 17:2 Numbers 14:1 Numbers 14:2 Exodus 16:2 Exodus 16:3 Job 3:10

Exodus 17:2 · BSB

So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?”

Numbers 14:1 · BSB

Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.

Numbers 14:2 · BSB

All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!

Exodus 16:2 · BSB

And there in the desert the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron.

Exodus 16:3 · BSB

“If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”

Job 3:10 · BSB

For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.

“when”

Numbers 16:31–35 Numbers 11:1 Numbers 16:49 Lamentations 4:9 Numbers 11:33 Numbers 11:34

Numbers 16:31–35 · BSB

As soon as Moses had finished saying all this, the ground beneath them split open,

Numbers 11:1 · BSB

Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.

Numbers 16:49 · BSB

But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700, in addition to those who had died on account of Korah.

Lamentations 4:9 · BSB

Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.

Numbers 11:33 · BSB

But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a severe plague.

Numbers 11:34 · BSB

So they called that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2Now there was no water for the congregation, so they gathered against Moses and Aaron.

4Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?

Read Numbers 20