Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
and the people strive with Moses, and speak, saying, 'And oh that we had expired when our brethren expired before Jehovah!
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.
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!
Themes
Israel » Kings of judah » Murmurings of
Israel » Lack » Complaints » Meribah » Rock
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 And there hath been no water for the company, and they are assembled against Moses, and against Aaron, 3 and the people strive with Moses, and speak, saying, 'And oh that we had expired when our brethren expired before Jehovah! 4 and why have ye brought in the assembly of Jehovah unto this wilderness to die there, we and our beasts?
Phrases
Cross References
Exodus 17:2
and the people strive with Moses, and say, 'Give us water, and we drink.' And Moses saith to them, 'What? -- ye strive with me, what? -- ye try Jehovah?'
Numbers 16:31-35
And it cometh to pass at his finishing speaking all these words, that the ground which is under them cleaveth,
Numbers 11:1
And the people is evil, as those sighing habitually in the ears of Jehovah, and Jehovah heareth, and His anger burneth, and the fire of Jehovah burneth among them, and consumeth in the extremity of the camp.
Numbers 16:49
and those who die by the plague are fourteen thousand and seven hundred, apart from those who die for the matter of Korah;
Exodus 16:2-3
And all the company of the sons of Israel murmur against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;
Numbers 11:33-34
The flesh is yet between their teeth -- it is not yet cut off -- and the anger of Jehovah hath burned among the people, and Jehovah smiteth among the people -- a very great smiting;
Numbers 14:1-2
And all the company lifteth up and give forth their voice, and the people weep during that night;
Numbers 14:36-37
And the men whom Moses hath sent to spy the land, and they turn back and cause all the company to murmur against him, by bringing out an evil account concerning the land,
Job 3:10-11
Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.
Lamentations 4:9
Better have been the pierced of a sword Than the pierced of famine, For these flow away, pierced through, Without the increase of the field.