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!
Numbers 20:3 in other translations
| BSB | The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD! |
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| WEB | The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD! |
| ASV | And the people strove with Moses, and spake, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah! |
| YLT | and the people strive with Moses, and speak, saying, ‘And oh that we had expired when our brethren expired before Jehovah! |
| DARBY | And the people contended with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah! |
| BBE | 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! |
| Webster | And the people chid with Moses, and spoke, saying, O that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD! |
What does Numbers 20:3 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 20:2-13
2-13. there was no water for the congregation--There was at Kadesh a fountain, En-Mishpat (Ge 14:7), and at the first encampment of the Israelites there was no want of water. It was then either partially dried up by the heat of the season, or had been exhausted by the demands of so vast a multitude.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 20:1-13
After thirty-eight years' tedious abode in the wilderness, the armies of Israel advanced towards Canaan again. There was no water for the congregation. We live in a wanting world, and wherever we are, must expect to meet with something to put us out. It is a great mercy to have plenty of water, a mercy which, if we found the want of, we should more own the worth of. Hereupon they murmured against Moses and Aaron…
Numbers 20:3 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 20:3
- Exodus 17:2
Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the Lord?
- Numbers 16:31-35
And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them: And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation. And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also. …
- Numbers 14:1-2
And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
- Exodus 16:2-3
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
- Numbers 11:33-34
And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague. And he called the name of that place Kibroth–hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.
- Numbers 16:49
Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
- Numbers 11:1
And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.
- Job 3:10-11
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
- Numbers 14:36-37
And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land, Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord.
- Lamentations 4:9
They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
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Context
- Numbers 20:2
And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
- 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!
- Numbers 20:4
And why have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
Numbers 20:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y regañó el pueblo con Moisés, y hablaron diciendo: ¡Ojalá que nosotros hubiéramos muerto cuando perecieron nuestros hermanos delante de Jehová! |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et le peuple contesta avec Moïse, et ils parlèrent, disant: Que n’avons-nous péri, quand nos frères périrent devant l’ Éternel! |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und das Volk haderte mit Mose, und sie sprachen und sagten: Wären wir doch umgekommen, als unsere Brüder vor Jehova umkamen! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | et versi in seditionem, dixerunt: Utinam periissemus inter fratres nostros coram Domino. |