Numbers 20:3 - King James Version - American Edition

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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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.

Numbers 20:3 Cross References

Psalm 106:33

because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.

Psalm 78:19

Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

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?

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.

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.

Numbers 14:3

And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

Numbers 16:49

Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah.