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 The congregation was without water. So they gathered to confront Moses and Aaron. 3 The people thus contended with Moses and spoke, saying, “If only we had perished when our brothers perished before the Lord! 4 Did you bring Jehovah's assembly into this desert just to have us all die and our animals?

Cross References

Exodus 17:2

So they complained to Moses about this: Give us water to drink! Moses said: Why do you complain to me? Why do you test Jehovah?

Numbers 16:31-35

When he finished speaking, the ground under them split,

Numbers 11:1

The people complained out loud to Jehovah about their troubles. Jehovah heard them and he became angry. Fire from Jehovah burned among them. It destroyed some people on the outskirts of the camp.

Numbers 16:49

Fourteen thousand seven hundred died from the plague in addition to those who died because of Korah.

Exodus 16:2-3

The entire congregation complained about Moses and Aaron in the desert.

Numbers 11:33-34

While the meat was still in their mouths, before they had even had a chance to chew it, Jehovah became angry with the people and struck them with a severe plague.

Numbers 14:1-2

All the Israelite congregation raised their voices and cried out loud all that night.

Numbers 14:36-37

The men Moses sent to explore the land died in front of Jehovah from a plague.

Job 3:10-11

for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me to hide trouble from my eyes.

Lamentations 4:9

Those killed by the sword are better off than those who died of starvation. For these die slowly and waste away from lack of food from the field.

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