Numbers 14:2 - Revised Standard Version

² And all the people of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron; the whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² All the Israelites grumbled and deplored their situation, accusing Moses and Aaron, to whom the whole congregation said, Would that we had died in Egypt! Or that we had died in this wilderness!

American Standard Version (1901)

² And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!

Common English Bible

² All the Israelites criticized Moses and Aaron. The entire community said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt or if only we had died in this desert!

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And all the sons of Israel were murmuring against Moses and Aaron, saying:

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying:

Numbers 14:2 Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree; and he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am no better than my fathers.”

Job 3:11

“Why did I not die at birth, come forth from the womb and expire?

Psalm 106:24

Then they despised the pleasant land, having no faith in his promise.

Psalm 106:25

They murmured in their tents, and did not obey the voice of the Lord.

Psalm 106:45

He remembered for their sake his covenant, and relented according to the abundance of his steadfast love.

Exodus 14:11

and they said to Moses, “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us, in bringing us out of Egypt?

Exodus 15:24

And the people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

Exodus 17:3

But the people thirsted there for water, and the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”

Jonah 4:3

Therefore now, O Lord, take my life from me, I beseech thee, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Jonah 4:8

When the sun rose, God appointed a sultry east wind, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah so that he was faint; and he asked that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

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 11:15

If thou wilt deal thus with me, kill me at once, if I find favor in thy sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.”

Numbers 11:5

We remember the fish we ate in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic;

Numbers 14:1

Then all the congregation raised a loud cry; and the people wept that night.

Numbers 14:22

none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the proof these ten times and have not hearkened to my voice,

Numbers 16:13

Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also make yourself a prince over us?

Numbers 16:41

But on the morrow all the congregation of the people of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed the people of the Lord.”

Numbers 17:6

Moses spoke to the people of Israel; and all their leaders gave him rods, one for each leader, according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods; and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.

Numbers 20:2

Now there was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.

Numbers 20:3

And the people contended with Moses, and said, “Would that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord!

Numbers 20:4

Why have you brought the assembly of the Lord into this wilderness, that we should die here, both we and our cattle?

Numbers 21:5

And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food.”

1 Corinthians 10:10

nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer.

Deuteronomy 1:27

and you murmured in your tents, and said, ‘Because the Lord hated us he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

Deuteronomy 9:23

And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Go up and take possession of the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and did not believe him or obey his voice.

Hebrews 3:16

Who were they that heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?

Jude 1:16

These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.