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Numbers 20:3

World English Bible

The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!

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Numbers 20:3 in other translations

And the people strove with Moses, and spake, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!

Numbers 20:3 · American Standard Version

Numbers 20:3 in context

  1. 1The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there.
  2. 2There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
  3. 3The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!
  4. 4Why have you brought Yahweh’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?
  5. 5Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.”