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Numbers 20:3
“And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!”
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Numbers 20:3 Context
1Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there. 2And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. 3And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD! 4And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there? 5And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto 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. 6And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto them.
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Translation Details for Numbers 20:3
And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
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Bible Commentary for Numbers 20:3
Wesley's Notes for Numbers 20:3
20:3 Before the Lord - Suddenly, rather than to die such a lingering death. Their sin was much greater than that of their parents, because they should have taken warning by their miscarriages, and by the terrible effects of them, which their eyes had seen.
And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
The people thus contended with Moses and spoke, saying, "If only we had perished when our brothers perished before the LORD!
- New American Standard Version (1995)
And the people strove with Moses, and spake, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!
- American Standard Version (1901)
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!
- Basic English Bible
The people quarreled with Moses and said, "If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!
- Berean Standard Bible Bible
And the people contended with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!
- Darby Bible
And making a sedition, they said: Would God we had perished among our brethren before the Lord.
- Douay-Rheims Bible
And the people strove with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
- English Revised Version
The people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, "We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!
- World English Bible