Numbers 20:3 - Easy To Read Version

³ The people argued with Moses. They said, “Maybe we should have died in front of the Lord like our brothers did.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And the people contended with Moses, and said, Would that we had died when our brethren died [in the plague] before the Lord! [Num. 16:49.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And the people strove with Moses, and spake, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!

Common English Bible

³ Then the people confronted Moses and said to him, “If only we too had died when our brothers perished in the LORD’s presence!

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And as it turned into sedition, they said: "If only we had perished among our brothers in the sight of the Lord.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And making a sedition, they said: Would God we had perished among our brethren before the Lord.

Numbers 20:3 Cross References

Psalm 106:33

Those people made Moses very upset,\par so Moses spoke without stopping to think.\par

Psalm 78:19

They complained about God and said,\par “Can God give us food in the desert?\par

Exodus 17:2

So the people turned against Moses and started arguing with him. The people said, “Give us water to drink.”

Lamentations 4:9

The people that were killed by the sword\par had it better than\par the people that were killed by famine.\par The starving people were very sad.\par They were hurt.\par They died because they got no food\par from the field.\par

Numbers 11:1

The people started complaining about their troubles. The Lord heard their complaints. The Lord heard these things and became angry. Fire from the Lord burned among the people. The fire burned some of the areas at the edge of the camp.

Numbers 14:3

Did the Lord bring us to this new land to be killed in war? The enemy will kill us and take our wives and children! It would be better for us to go back to Egypt.”

Numbers 16:49

But 14,700 people died from that sickness—and that is not counting the people who died because of Korah.