Numbers 20:3

Numbers chapter 20 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

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

King James Version · 1611

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

American Standard Version · 1901

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

v.2And there was no water for the congregation: and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.

v.3This passage

v.4And why have ye brought the assembly of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Exodus 17:2
Wherefore the people strove with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why strive ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt Jehovah?
Numbers 16:49
Now they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah.
Numbers 11:33
While the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the anger of Jehovah was kindled against the people, and Jehovah smote the people with a very great plague.
Exodus 16:2
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness:
Lamentations 4:9
They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.
Numbers 11:1
And the people were as murmurers, speaking evil in the ears of Jehovah: and when Jehovah heard it, his anger was kindled; and the fire of Jehovah burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost part of the camp.