Numbers 20:3

In 11 translations

BSB

The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!

KJV

And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!

WEB

The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!

ASV

And the people strove with Moses, and spake, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!

LSV

and the people strive with Moses and speak, saying, “And oh that we had expired when our brothers expired before YHWH!

YLT

and the people strive with Moses, and speak, saying, 'And oh that we had expired when our brethren expired before Jehovah!

DBY

And the people contended with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!

DRC

And making a sedition, they said: Would God we had perished among our brethren before the Lord.

GNV

And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God we had perished, when our brethren died before the Lord.

JPS

And the people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying: 'Would that we had perished when our brethren perished before the LORD!

LXXE

And the people reviled Moses, saying, Would we had died in the destruction of our brethren before the Lord!

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WLC

וַיָּ֥רֶב הָעָ֖ם עִם־מֹשֶׁ֑ה וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ לֵאמֹ֔ר וְל֥וּ גָוַ֛עְנוּ בִּגְוַ֥ע אַחֵ֖ינוּ לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ἐλοιδορεῖτο ὁ λαὸς πρὸς Μωυσῆν, λέγοντες, ὄφελον ἀπεθάνομεν ἐν τῇ ἀπωλείᾳ τῶν ἀδελφῶν ἡμῶν ἔναντι Κυρίου.

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• 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 14:1–2Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept. All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in…
• Numbers 16:31–35As soon as Moses had finished saying all this, the ground beneath them split open, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households—all Korah’s men and all their possessions. They went down alive…
• Numbers 11:33–34But 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. So they called that place Kibroth-hattaavah,…
• 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 16:49But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700, in addition to those who had died on account of Korah.
• Exodus 16:2–3And there in the desert they all grumbled against Moses and Aaron. “If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought…
• 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.
• Job 3:10–11For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes. Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
• Numbers 14:36–37So 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— those men who had brought out the bad report about the…

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