Numbers 20:4 “Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness for us a…”

Numbers 20:4

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?

World English Bible

Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?

American Standard Version

And why have ye brought the assembly of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?

Geneva Bible 1599

Why haue ye thus brought the Congregation of the Lord vnto his wildernesse, that both we, and our cattell should die there?

Darby Translation

And why have ye brought the congregation of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?

Young's Literal Translation

and why have ye brought in the assembly of Jehovah unto this wilderness to die there, we and our beasts?

Bible in Basic English

Why have you taken the Lord's people into this waste, for death to come to us and to our cattle there?

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Cross references

“why”

Exodus 17:3 Psalm 106:21 Numbers 11:5 Exodus 5:21 Acts 7:35 Acts 7:39

Exodus 17:3 · BSB

But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”

Psalm 106:21 · BSB

They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,

Numbers 11:5 · BSB

We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

Exodus 5:21 · BSB

“May the LORD look upon you and judge you,” the foremen said, “for you have made us a stench before Pharaoh and his officials; you have placed in their hand a sword to kill us!”

Acts 7:35 · BSB

This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

Acts 7:39 · BSB

But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

“that we”

Numbers 16:41 Exodus 16:3 Numbers 16:13 Numbers 16:14 Exodus 14:11 Exodus 14:12

Numbers 16:41 · BSB

The next day the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the LORD’s people!”

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!”

Numbers 16:13 · BSB

Is it not enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Must you also appoint yourself as ruler over us?

Numbers 16:14 · BSB

Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? No, we will not come!”

Exodus 14:11 · BSB

They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

Exodus 14:12 · BSB

Did we not say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

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

In context

3The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!

5Why have you led us up out of Egypt to bring us to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain, figs, vines, or pomegranates—and there is no water to drink!”

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