Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

The people thus contended with Moses and spoke, saying, “If only we had perished when our brothers perished before the Lord!

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.

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!

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!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And the people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

רוּב ריבo 
Riyb 
Usage: 66

with Moses
משׁה 
Mosheh 
Usage: 766

and spake

Usage: 0

לוּ לא לוּא 
Luw' 
if, would God, O that, Oh, would it might be, if haply, peradventure, Oh that, pray thee, Though, would
Usage: 22

we had died
גּוע 
Gava` 
die, give up the ghost, dead, perish, dead
Usage: 24

גּוע 
Gava` 
die, give up the ghost, dead, perish, dead
Usage: 24

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

Context Readings

Miriam Dies

2 And there was no water for the congregation; and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. 3 The people thus contended with Moses and spoke, saying, “If only we had perished when our brothers perished before the Lord! 4 And why have ye caused the congregation of the LORD to come into this wilderness that we and our beasts should die here?

Cross References

Exodus 17:2

And the people chided with Moses and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? Why do ye tempt the LORD?

Numbers 16:31-35

And it came to pass as he had made an end of speaking all these words that the ground broke open under them;

Numbers 11:1

And it came to pass that the people complained in an evil manner in the ears of the LORD, and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burnt among them and consumed in the uttermost parts of the camp.

Numbers 16:49

Now those that died in that plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those that died concerning the matter of Korah.

Exodus 16:2-3

And the whole congregation of the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness;

Numbers 11:33-34

And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.

Numbers 14:1-2

Then all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried, and the people wept that night.

Numbers 14:36-37

And the men, whom Moses had sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up a slander upon the land,

Job 3:10-11

because it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb nor hide the misery from my eyes.

Lamentations 4:9

Teth Those slain with the sword are better than those slain with hunger; for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the earth.

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