Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh, us and our livestock, into this desert to die here?
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
Holman Bible
Why have you brought the Lord’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?
International Standard Version
Why did you bring the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness? So we and our cattle could die here?
A Conservative Version
And why have ye brought the assembly of LORD into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?
American Standard Version
And why have ye brought the assembly of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?
Amplified
Why have you brought up the assembly of the Lord into this wilderness to die here, we and our livestock?
Bible in Basic English
Why have you taken the Lord's people into this waste, for death to come to us and to our cattle there?
Darby Translation
And why have ye brought the congregation of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?
Julia Smith Translation
And for what brought ye the gathering of Jehovah into this desert to die there, we and our cattle
King James 2000
And why have you brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
Modern King James verseion
And why have you brought up the congregation of Jehovah into this wilderness, so that we and our cattle should die there?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Why have ye brought the congregation of the LORD unto this wilderness, that both we and our cattle should die here?
NET Bible
Why have you brought up the Lord's community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?
New Heart English Bible
Why have you brought the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?
The Emphasized Bible
Wherefore then hast thou brought the convocation of Yahweh into this desert, - to die there, we, and our cattle?
Webster
And why have ye brought the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
World English Bible
Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?
Youngs Literal Translation
and why have ye brought in the assembly of Jehovah unto this wilderness to die there, we and our beasts?
Themes
Israel » Lack » Complaints » Meribah » Rock
moses » People complain against moses and aaron
Murmuring » Instances of » israelites
Murmuring » Of israelites against moses
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Morish
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Numbers 20:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Miriam Dies
3 And the people quarreled with Moses and spoke, saying, "If only we died when our brothers were dying {before} Yahweh! 4 Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh, us and our livestock, into this desert to die here? 5 Why have you brought us from Egypt to bring us to this bad place? It is not a place of seed or figs or vines or pomegranate trees, and there is not water to drink."
Names
Cross References
Exodus 17:3
And the people thirsted for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, "Why {ever} did you bring us up from Egypt to kill me and my sons and my cattle with thirst?"
Exodus 5:21
And they said to them, "May Yahweh look upon you and judge because you have caused our fragrance to stink in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants [so as] to put a sword into their hand to kill us."
Exodus 14:11-12
And they said to Moses, "Because there are no graves in Egypt? Is that why you have taken us to die in the desert? What [is] this you have done to us by bringing us out from Egypt!
Exodus 16:3
And the {Israelites} said to them, "{If only we had died} by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread {until we were full}, because you have brought us out to this desert to kill all of this assembly with hunger."
Numbers 11:5
We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt for nothing, the cucumber, melon, leek, the onions, and the garlic.
Numbers 16:13-14
Is it too little that you have brought us from a land that flows with milk and honey to kill us in the desert, and that you also appoint yourself as a ruler over us?
Numbers 16:41
The next day all the community of the {Israelites} grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, "You have killed the people of Yahweh!"
Psalm 106:21
They forgot God their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,
Acts 7:35
This Moses whom they had repudiated, saying, 'Who appointed you a ruler and a judge?'--this man God sent [as] both ruler and redeemer with {the help} of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
Acts 7:39-40
to whom our fathers were not willing to become obedient, but rejected [him] and turned [back] in their hearts to Egypt,