Numbers 16:13

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

It's bad enough that you took us from our rich farmland in Egypt to let us die here in the desert. Now you also want to boss us around!

Cross References

Exodus 1:11

The Egyptians put slave bosses in charge of the people of Israel and tried to wear them down with hard work. Those bosses forced them to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses, where the king could store his supplies.

Exodus 1:22

until finally, the king gave a command to everyone in the nation, “As soon as a Hebrew boy is born, throw him into the River Nile! But you can let the girls live.”

Exodus 16:3

“We wish the LORD had killed us in Egypt. When we lived there, we could at least sit down and eat all the bread and meat we wanted. But you have brought us out here into this desert, where we are going to starve.”

Exodus 17:3

But the people were thirsty and kept on complaining, “Moses, did you bring us out of Egypt just to let us and our families and our animals die of thirst?”

Exodus 2:14

The man answered, “Who put you in charge of us and made you our judge? Are you planning to kill me, just as you killed that Egyptian?” This frightened Moses because he was sure that people must have found out what had happened.

Exodus 2:23

After the death of the king of Egypt, the Israelites still complained because they were forced to be slaves. They cried out for help,

Ezekiel 34:18

Some of you eat the greenest grass, then trample down what's left when you finish. Others drink clean water, then step in the water to make the rest of it muddy.

Numbers 11:4

One day some worthless foreigners among the Israelites became greedy for food, and even the Israelites themselves began moaning, “We don't have any meat!

Numbers 11:5

In Egypt we could eat all the fish we wanted, and there were cucumbers, melons, onions, and garlic.

Numbers 13:27

and said: Look at this fruit! The land we explored is rich with milk and honey.

Numbers 14:2

and complained to Moses and Aaron, “We wish we had died in Egypt or somewhere out here in the desert!

Numbers 14:3

Is the LORD leading us into Canaan, just to have us killed and our women and children captured? We'd be better off in Egypt.”

Numbers 16:12

Then Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram, but they sent back this message: “We won't come!

Luke 19:14

But the people of his country hated him, and they sent messengers to the foreign country to say, “We don't want this man to be our king.”

Acts 7:35

This was the same Moses that the people rejected by saying, “Who made you our leader and judge?” God's angel had spoken to Moses from the bush. And God had even sent the angel to help Moses rescue the people and be their leader.