Numbers 20:3 - Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

³ and complained, “Moses, we'd be better off if we had died along with the others in front of the Lord's sacred tent.

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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 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 106:33

Then Moses got into trouble for speaking in anger.

Psalm 78:19

They challenged God by saying, “Can God provide food out here in the desert?

Exodus 17:2

The people started complaining to Moses, “Give us some water!” Moses replied, “Why are you complaining to me and trying to put the Lord to the test?”

Lamentations 4:9

Being killed with a sword is better than slowly starving to death.

Numbers 11:1

One day the Israelites started complaining about their troubles. The Lord heard them and became so angry that he destroyed the outer edges of their camp with fire.

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 16:49

But 14,700 Israelites were dead, not counting those who had died with Korah and his followers.