Numbers 16:13

New American Bible - revised edition

Are you not satisfied that you have brought us here from a land flowing with milk and honey to have us perish in the wilderness, that now you must also lord it over us?

Cross References

Exodus 1:11

Accordingly, they set supervisors over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. Thus they had to build for Pharaoh the garrison cities of Pithom and Raamses.

Exodus 1:22

Pharaoh then commanded all his people, “Throw into the Nile every boy that is born, but you may let all the girls live.”

Exodus 16:3

The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died at the Lord’s hand in the land of Egypt, as we sat by our kettles of meat and ate our fill of bread! But you have led us into this wilderness to make this whole assembly die of famine!” The Quail and the Manna.

Exodus 17:3

Here, then, in their thirst for water, the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “Why then did you bring us up out of Egypt? To have us die of thirst with our children and our livestock?”

Exodus 2:14

But he replied, “Who has appointed you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses became afraid and thought, “The affair must certainly be known.”

Exodus 2:23

A long time passed, during which the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned under their bondage and cried out, and from their bondage their cry for help went up to God.

Ezekiel 34:18

Was it not enough for you to graze on the best pasture, that you had to trample the rest of your pastures with your hooves? Or to drink the clearest water, that you had to pollute the rest with your hooves?

Numbers 11:20

but for a whole month—until it comes out of your very nostrils and becomes loathsome to you. For you have rejected the Lord who is in your midst, and in his presence you have cried, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”

Numbers 11:4

The riffraff among them were so greedy for meat that even the Israelites lamented again, “If only we had meat for food!

Numbers 11:5

We remember the fish we used to eat without cost in Egypt, and the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.

Numbers 13:27

They told Moses: “We came to the land to which you sent us. It does indeed flow with milk and honey, and here is its fruit.

Numbers 14:2

All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, the whole community saying to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt,” or “If only we would die here in the wilderness!

Numbers 14:3

Why is the Lord bringing us into this land only to have us fall by the sword? Our wives and little ones will be taken as spoil. Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”

Numbers 16:12

Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, but they answered, “We will not go.

Luke 19:14

His fellow citizens, however, despised him and sent a delegation after him to announce, ‘We do not want this man to be our king.’

Acts 7:35

This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who appointed you ruler and judge?’ God sent as [both] ruler and deliverer, through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.