Numbers 14:2 - Tree of Life Version

² All Bnei-Yisrael grumbled against Moses and Aaron and the whole community said, “If only we had died in Egypt! If only 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 bush. He prayed that he might die. “It’s too much!” he said. “Now, Adonai, take my life! For I’m no better than my fathers.”

Job 3:11

Why did I not die at birth and expire as I exited the womb?

Psalm 106:24

Then they scorned the pleasing land— they did not trust in His word.

Psalm 106:25

Instead, they grumbled in their tents. They would not listen to Adonai’s voice.

Psalm 106:45

remembered His covenant to them, and relented in the greatness of His mercy.

Exodus 14:11

They said to Moses, “Have you taken us away to die in the wilderness because there were no graves in Egypt? Why have you dealt this way with us, to bring us out of Egypt?

Exodus 15:24

So the people complained to Moses saying, “What are we going to drink?”

Exodus 17:3

But the people thirsted for water there, and they complained against Moses and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt? To kill us with thirst, along with our children and cattle?”

Jonah 4:3

So please, Adonai, take my soul from me—because better is my death than my life.”

Jonah 4:8

When the sun rose, God prepared a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint. So he implored that his soul would die, saying, “My death would be better than my life!”

Numbers 11:1

The people were murmuring in the ears of Adonai about hardship, and when Adonai heard, His anger burned. The fire of Adonai blazed among them, ravaging the outskirts of the camp.

Numbers 11:15

If this is how You are treating me, kill me now! If I have found favor in Your eyes, kill me please—don’t let me see my own misery!”

Numbers 11:5

We remember the fish that we used to eat in Egypt, for free—the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic!

Numbers 14:1

All through that night, the entire community raised up their voices. The people wept.

Numbers 14:22

none of the people who saw My glory and My miraculous signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet tested Me these ten times and did not obey My Voice—

Numbers 16:13

Isn’t it enough that you brought us from a land flowing with milk and honey, only to kill us in the wilderness? And now you would lord it over us?

Numbers 16:41

The next day, the entire community of Bnei-Yisrael grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You killed Adonai’s people!”

Numbers 17:6

So Moses spoke to Bnei-Yisrael. Each of their princes gave him a staff, one staff for each prince according to their ancestral houses, twelve staffs in all, and Aaron’s staff was among them.

Numbers 20:2

Now there was no water for the community, so they assembled against Moses and Aaron.

Numbers 20:3

The people quarreled with Moses saying, “If only we had died when our brothers died before Adonai!

Numbers 20:4

Now why have you brought the community of Adonai into this wilderness, for us and our livestock to die here?

Numbers 21:5

The people spoke against God and Moses: “Why have you brought us from Egypt to die in the wilderness, because there is no bread, no water, and our very spirits detest the despicable food?

1 Corinthians 10:10

And let’s not grumble, as some of them did—and were destroyed by the destroying angel.

Deuteronomy 1:27

In your tents you grumbled and said: ‘Because Adonai hates us, He has brought us out from the land of Egypt to hand us over to the Amorites, to destroy us!

Deuteronomy 9:23

When Adonai sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Go up and possess the land I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the commandment of Adonai your God and didn’t believe Him or listen to His voice.

Hebrews 3:16

Now which ones heard and rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt with Moses?

Jude 1:16

These are bellyaching grumblers, following after their own desires. Their mouth speaks grandiose things, showing favoritism for the sake of gain.