Numbers 20:4 - Tree of Life Version Now why have you brought the community of Adonai into this wilderness, for us and our livestock to die here? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And why have you brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we should die here, we and our livestock? American Standard Version (1901) And why have ye brought the assembly of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts? Common English Bible Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this desert to kill us and our animals here? Catholic Public Domain Version Why have you led away the Church of the Lord, into the wilderness, so that both we and our cattle would die? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Why have you brought out the church of the Lord into the wilderness, that both we and our cattle should die? |
Bnei-Yisrael said to them, “If only we had died by the hand of Adonai in the land of Egypt, when we sat by pots of meat, when we ate bread until we were full. But you have brought us into the wilderness, to kill this entire congregation with hunger.”
But the people thirsted for water there, and they complained against Moses and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt? To kill us with thirst, along with our children and cattle?”
So they said to them, “May Adonai look on you and judge, because you have made us a stench in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants—putting a sword in their hand to kill us!”
but for an entire month—until it is coming out of your nostrils and it becomes loathsome to you! For you rejected Adonai who is among you, and you wailed to His face saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?”
We remember the fish that we used to eat in Egypt, for free—the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic!
All Bnei-Yisrael grumbled against Moses and Aaron and the whole community said, “If only we had died in Egypt! If only we had died in this wilderness!
The next day, the entire community of Bnei-Yisrael grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You killed Adonai’s people!”
“This Moses—whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who appointed you as ruler and judge?’—is the one whom God sent as both ruler and redeemer, by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
For upon departing from Egypt, Israel traveled through the wilderness to the Sea of Reeds and came to Kadesh,