Numbers 20:4

In 11 translations

BSB

Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?

KJV

And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?

WEB

Why have you brought Yahweh’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?

ASV

And why have ye brought the assembly of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?

LSV

And why have you brought in the assembly of YHWH to this wilderness to die there, we and our beasts?

YLT

and why have ye brought in the assembly of Jehovah unto this wilderness to die there, we and our beasts?

DBY

And why have ye brought the congregation of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?

DRC

Why have you brought out the church of the Lord into the wilderness, that both we and our cattle should die?

GNV

Why haue ye thus brought the Congregation of the Lord vnto his wildernesse, that both we, and our cattell should die there?

JPS

And why have ye brought the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, to die there, we and our cattle?

LXXE

And wherefore have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, to kill us and our cattle?

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Original-language editions

WLC

וְלָמָ֤ה הֲבֵאתֶם֙ אֶת־קְהַ֣ל יְהוָ֔ה אֶל־הַמִּדְבָּ֖ר הַזֶּ֑ה לָמ֣וּת שָׁ֔ם אֲנַ֖חְנוּ וּבְעִירֵֽנוּ׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ἱνατί ἀνηγάγετε τὴν συναγωγὴν Κυρίου εἰς τὴν ἔρημον ταύτην ἀποκτεῖναι ἡμᾶς, καὶ τα κτήνη ἡμῶν;

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• Exodus 17:3But 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?”
• Psalms 106:21They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,
• Exodus 16:3“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 us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”
• Acts 7:35This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
• Numbers 16:41The next day the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the LORD’s people!”
• Exodus 14:11–12They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? Did we not say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone so…
• Numbers 16:13–14Is it not enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Must you also appoint yourself as ruler over us? Moreover, you have not brought us into a land…
• Acts 7:39–40But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt. They said to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go before us! As for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt,…
• Numbers 11:5We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.
• Exodus 5:21“May the LORD look upon you and judge you,” the foremen said, “for you have made us a stench before Pharaoh and his officials; you have placed in their hand a sword to kill us!”

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