Numbers 20:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³ And the people contended with Moses, and said, “Would 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.

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

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

Psalm 78:19

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

Exodus 17:2

Therefore the people found fault with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you find fault with me? Why do you put the Lord to the proof?”

Lamentations 4:9

Happier were the victims of the sword than the victims of hunger, who pined away, stricken by want of the fruits of the field.

Numbers 11:1

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

Numbers 14:3

Why does the Lord bring us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey; would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”

Numbers 16:49

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