Numbers 20:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³ And the people strove 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

Exodus 17:2

Wherefore the people strove with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why strive ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?

Numbers 16:49

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

Numbers 11:1

And the people were as murmurers, speaking evil in the ears of the LORD: and when the LORD heard it, his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost part of the camp.

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 14:3

And wherefore doth the LORD bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones shall be a prey: were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

Psalm 78:19

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

Psalm 106:33

Because they were rebellious against his spirit, And he spake unadvisedly with his lips.