Numbers 20:4 - Easy To Read Version

⁴ Why did you bring the Lord’s people into this desert? Do you want us and our animals to die here?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ 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

⁴ 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)

⁴ And why have ye brought the assembly of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?

Common English Bible

⁴ Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this desert to kill us and our animals here?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Why have you led away the Church of the Lord, into the wilderness, so that both we and our cattle would die?

Numbers 20:4 Cross References

Exodus 17:3

But the people were very thirsty for water. So they continued complaining to Moses. The people said, “Why did you bring us out of Egypt? Did you bring us out here so that we, our children, and our cattle will all die without water?”

Acts 7:35

“This Moses was the same man the Israelites {\cf2\super [136]} said they did not want. They had said to him, ‘Did anyone say you could be our ruler and judge? {\cf2\super [137]} No!’ Moses is the same man that God sent to be a ruler and savior. God sent Moses with the help of an angel. This was the angel Moses saw in the burning bush.

Psalm 106:21

God saved our ancestors. {\cf2\super [556]} \par But they forgot all about him.\par They forgot about the God who did\par the miracles in Egypt.\par

Numbers 16:41

The next day all the people of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron. They said, “You killed the Lord’s people.”

Numbers 11:5

We remember the fish we ate in Egypt. That fish cost us nothing. We also had good vegetables like cucumbers, melons, chives, onions, and garlic.

Exodus 16:3

The people said, “It would have been better if the Lord had just killed us in the land of Egypt. At least there we had plenty to eat. We had all the food we needed. But now you have brought us out here into this desert. So he can make us die from hunger.”

Exodus 5:21

So they said to Moses and Aaron, “You really made a mistake when you told Pharaoh to let us go. May the Lord punish you because you caused Pharaoh and his rulers to hate us. You have given them an excuse to kill us.”

Numbers 14:2

The people of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron. All the people came together and said to Moses and Aaron, “We should have died in Egypt or in the desert. {That would have been better than being killed in this new land.}

Judges 11:16

When the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, the people of Israel went into the desert. The people of Israel went to the Red Sea. Then they went to Kadesh.

Numbers 11:20

You will eat that meat for a whole month. You will eat the meat until you are sick of it. This will happen to you because you complained against the Lord. The Lord lives among you and knows what you need. But you cried and complained to him! You said, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”