Numbers 20:5

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Egypt was better than this horrible place. At least there we had grain and figs and grapevines and pomegranates. But now we don't even have any water.”

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:21

You took good care of them, and for forty years they never lacked a thing. Their shoes didn't wear out, and their feet were never swollen.

Jeremiah 2:2

to go to Jerusalem and tell everyone that he had said: When you were my young bride, you loved me and followed me through the barren desert.

Jeremiah 2:6

Your ancestors refused to ask for my help, though I had rescued them from Egypt and led them through a treacherous, barren desert, where no one lives or dares to travel.

Ezekiel 20:36

and punish you, just as I punished your ancestors in the desert near Egypt.

Numbers 16:14

You keep promising us rich farmlands with fertile fields and vineyards—but where are they? Stop trying to trick these people. No, we won't come to see you.”

Numbers 20:24

“Aaron, this is where you will die. You and Moses disobeyed me at Meribah, and so you will not enter the land I promised the Israelites.

Numbers 27:14

because both of you disobeyed me at Meribah near the town of Kadesh in the Zin Desert. When the Israelites insulted me there, you didn't believe in my holy power.”

Deuteronomy 8:15

Remember how he led you in that huge and frightening desert where poisonous snakes and scorpions live. There was no water, but the LORD split open a rock, and water poured out so you could drink.