Numbers 20:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ The people quarreled with Moses and said, “Would that we had died when our kindred 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

Exodus 17:2

The people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?”

Numbers 16:49

Those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died in the affair of Korah.

Numbers 11:1

Now when the people complained in the hearing of the Lord about their misfortunes, the Lord heard it, and his anger was kindled. Then the fire of the Lord burned against them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp.

Lamentations 4:9

Happier were those pierced by the sword than those pierced by hunger, whose life drains away, deprived of the produce of the field.

Numbers 14:3

Why is the Lord bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become plunder; would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”

Psalm 78:19

They spoke against God, saying, “Can God spread a table in the wilderness?

Psalm 106:33

for they made his spirit bitter, and he spoke words that were rash.