Numbers 20:3
World English Bible (WEB)
The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!
In context
1 The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there.
2 There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
3 The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!
4 Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?
5 Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.”
Numbers 20:3 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!
- KJV King James Version
- And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!
- ASV American Standard Version
- And the people strove with Moses, and spake, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and the people strive with Moses, and speak, saying, 'And oh that we had expired when our brethren expired before Jehovah!
- DBY Darby Translation
- And the people contended with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!
- WBS Webster Bible
- And the people chid with Moses, and spoke, saying, O that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!