Exodus 17:4
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Then Moses cried out to the LORD, “What should I do with these people? A little more and they will stone me!”
In context
2 So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?”
3 But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”
4 Then Moses cried out to the LORD, “What should I do with these people? A little more and they will stone me!”
5 And the LORD said to Moses, “Walk on ahead of the people and take some of the elders of Israel with you. Take along in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.
6 Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Exodus 17:4 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Then Moses cried out to the LORD, “What should I do with these people? A little more and they will stone me!”
- KJV King James Version
- And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
- WEB World English Bible
- Moses cried to the LORD, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
- ASV American Standard Version
- And Moses cried unto Jehovah, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they are almost ready to stone me.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And Moses crieth to Jehovah, saying, 'What do I to this people? yet a little, and they have stoned me.'
- DBY Darby Translation
- And Moses cried to Jehovah, saying, What shall I do with this people? Yet a little, and they will stone me!
- WBS Webster Bible
- And Moses cried to the LORD, saying, What shall I do to this people? they are almost ready to stone me.