Parallel Verses
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?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh, us and our livestock, into this desert to die here?
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 » Struck
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
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The people complained to Moses. They said: If only we had died when the other Israelites died in Jehovah's presence!
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Names
Cross References
Exodus 17:3
The people were thirsty for water. They complained to Moses and asked: Why did you bring us out of Egypt? Was it to make us, our children, and our livestock die of thirst?
Exodus 5:21
They said: May Jehovah see what you have done and judge you! You have made Pharaoh and his officials hate us. You have given them an excuse to kill us.
Exodus 14:11-12
They also complained to Moses: Was there not enough room in Egypt to bury us? Is that why you brought us out here to die in the desert? Why did you bring us out of Egypt?
Exodus 16:3
The Israelites said to them: If only Jehovah had allowed us to die in Egypt! There we sat by our pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted! You brought us out into this desert to let us all starve to death!
Numbers 11:5
Remember all the free fish we ate in Egypt and the cucumbers, watermelons, leeks, onions, and garlic we had?
Numbers 16:13-14
Is it not enough that you brought us out of a land flowing with milk and honey only to kill us in the desert? Do you also have to order us around?
Numbers 16:41
The next day the whole congregation of Israel complained to Moses and Aaron. They said: You have killed Jehovah's people.
Psalm 106:21
They forgot the God of their salvation, the one who did spectacular things in Egypt,
Acts 7:35
This Moses whom they refused, saying: Who made you ruler and judge? God sent him to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush.
Acts 7:39-40
Our fathers would not obey him. They sent him away, and in their hearts turned back again to Egypt.