Parallel Verses

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.

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!

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 Moreover, there was no water for the multitude, wherefore they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. 3 And the people chode with Moses and spake, saying, "Would God that we had perished when our brethren perished before the LORD. 4 Why have ye brought the congregation of the LORD unto this wilderness, that both we and our cattle should die here?

Cross References

Exodus 17:2

And the people chode with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink." And Moses said unto them, "Why chide ye with me, and wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?"

Numbers 16:31-35

And as soon as he had made an end of speaking all these words, the ground clove asunder that was under them,

Numbers 11:1

And the people waxed unpatient, and it displeased the ears of the LORD. And when the LORD heard it, he was wroth, and the fire of the LORD burnt among them and consumed the uttermost of the host.

Numbers 16:49

And the number of them that died in the plague, were fourteen thousand and seven hundred: beside them that died about the business of Korah.

Exodus 16:2-3

And the whole multitude of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,

Numbers 11:33-34

And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, yer it was chewed up, the wrath of the LORD waxed hot upon the people, and the LORD slew of the people an exceeding mighty slaughter.

Numbers 14:1-2

And the multitude cried out, and the people wept throughout that night,

Numbers 14:36-37

And the men which Moses sent to search the land, and which - when they came again - made all the people to murmur against it, in that they brought up a slander upon the land;

Job 3:10-11

because it shut not up the womb that bare me. For then should these sorrows have been hid from mine eyes.

Lamentations 4:9

{Tet} They that be slain with the sword, are happier than such as die of hunger, and perish away famishing for the fruits of the field.

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