Numbers 20:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!”
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“The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord!”
King James Version · Public Domain“And the people strove with Moses, and spake, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and the people strive with Moses, and speak, saying, `And oh that we had expired when our brethren expired before Jehovah!”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Numbers 20:3 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 16:2And there in the desert they all grumbled against Moses and Aaron.
- Exodus 17:2So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?”
- Numbers 11:1Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.
- Numbers 11:33But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a severe plague.
- Numbers 14:1Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.
- Numbers 14:36So the men Moses had sent to spy out the land, who had returned and made the whole congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report about the land—
- Numbers 14:37those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.
- Numbers 16:31As soon as Moses had finished saying all this, the ground beneath them split open,
- Numbers 16:49But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700, in addition to those who had died on account of Korah.
- Job 3:10For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.
- Lamentations 4:9Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.
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