Parallel Verses

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!

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!

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 not water for the assembly: and they will gather together against Moses and against Aaron. 3 And they will contend with Moses, and will speak, saying, Would that we died in the dying of our brethren before Jehovah! 4 And for what brought ye the gathering of Jehovah into this desert to die there, we and our cattle

Cross References

Exodus 17:2

And the people contended with Moses, and they will say, Give to us water and we will drink. And Moses will say to them, Why will ye contend with me, and why will ye tempt Jehovah?

Numbers 16:31-35

And it shall be as he finished to speak all these words, the earth shall cleave asunder which is under them:

Numbers 11:1

And the people shall be as complainers, and it was evil in the ears of Jehovah; and Jehovah will hear, and his anger will kindle, and the fire of Jehovah will burn among them and will consume in the extremity of the camp.

Numbers 16:49

And they dying in the smiting will be fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides they dying for the words of Korah.

Exodus 16:2-3

And all the assembly of the sons of Israel will murmur against Moses and against Aaron in the desert

Numbers 11:33-34

And the flesh yet between their teeth, before it shall be withdrawn and the anger of Jehovah was kindled against the people, and Jehovah will smite upon them an exceeding great blow.

Numbers 14:1-2

And all the assembly will lift up and give their voice; and the people will weep in that night

Numbers 14:36-37

And the men whom Moses sent to search out the land, and they will turn back and will murmur against him to all the assembly, to bring forth slander upon the land.

Job 3:10-11

Because it shut not up the doors of my belly; and shall it hide the labor of mine eyes?

Lamentations 4:9

Those wounded by the sword were good above those wounded by famine: these will flow away, being thrust through from the produce of the field.

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