Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
As the people argued with Moses, they told him, "We wish that we had died when our relatives died in the LORD's presence!
New American Standard Bible
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!
Holman Bible
The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished when our brothers perished before the Lord.
A Conservative Version
And the people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brothers died before LORD!
American Standard Version
And the people strove with Moses, and spake, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!
Amplified
The people contended with Moses, and said, “If only we had perished when our brothers perished [in the plague] before the Lord!
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!
Darby Translation
And the people contended with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!
Julia Smith Translation
And they will contend with Moses, and will speak, saying, Would that we died in the dying of our brethren before Jehovah!
King James 2000
And the people contended with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the people quarreled with Moses and spoke, saying, "If only we died when our brothers were dying {before} Yahweh!
Modern King James verseion
And the people contended with Moses and spoke, saying, Oh that we had died when our brothers died before Jehovah!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And the people chode with Moses and spake, saying, "Would God that we had perished when our brethren perished before the LORD.
NET Bible
The people contended with Moses, saying, "If only we had died when our brothers died before the Lord!
New Heart English Bible
The people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, "We wish that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD.
The Emphasized Bible
And the people contended with Moses, - and spake saying, Would then we had died a when our brethren died, before Yahweh!
Webster
And the people chid with Moses, and spoke, saying, O that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
World English Bible
The people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, "We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!
Youngs Literal Translation
and the people strive with Moses, and speak, saying, 'And oh that we had expired when our brethren expired before Jehovah!
Themes
Israel » Kings of judah » Murmurings of
Israel » Lack » Complaints » Meribah » Rock » Struck
moses » People complain against moses and aaron
Murmuring » Instances of » israelites
Murmuring » Of israelites against moses
Rebellion against God » Exhibited in » Murmuring against him
Interlinear
Luw'
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References
Hastings
Morish
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Numbers 20:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Miriam Dies
2 But there was no water for the community, so they gathered together against Moses and Aaron. 3 As the people argued with Moses, they told him, "We wish that we had died when our relatives died in the LORD's presence! 4 Why did you bring the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness? So we and our cattle could die here?
Phrases
Cross References
Exodus 17:2
The people quarreled with Moses: "Give us water to drink." Moses told them, "Why are you quarreling with me? Why are you testing the LORD?"
Numbers 16:31-35
Just as he finished saying all these things, the ground under them split open.
Numbers 11:1
Eventually, the people began complaining about their distress, and the LORD heard them. When the LORD heard, his anger flared up and the LORD's fire incinerated some of them within the outskirts of the camp.
Numbers 16:49
Those who died due to the plague numbered 14,700, not counting those who died due to the matter with Korah.
Exodus 16:2-3
The whole congregation of the Israelis complained against Moses and Aaron in the desert.
Numbers 11:33-34
But even as they were chewing the meat and before they had swallowed it, the LORD became very angry with the people and struck them with a disastrous plague.
Numbers 14:1-2
At this, the entire assembly complained, started to shout, and cried through the rest of that night.
Numbers 14:36-37
After this, the men whom Moses sent out to explore the land, who returned and made the whole congregation complain against him by bringing an evil report concerning the land,
Job 3:10-11
"Because that night refused to shut the doors of my mother's womb; it failed to keep me from seeing this trouble.
Lamentations 4:9
Those who die by the sword are better off than those who die from starvation, who slowly waste away like those pierced through for lack of food from the fields.