Numbers 20:4
What does Numbers 20:4 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 20:4 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And why have ye brought the assembly of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?
KJV
King James Version · 1611And why have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And why have ye brought the assembly of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Why have you taken the Lord's people into this waste, for death to come to us and to our cattle there?
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and why have ye brought in the assembly of Jehovah unto this wilderness to die there, we and our beasts?
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Why have you brought out the church of the Lord into the wilderness, that both we and our cattle should die?
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And why have ye brought the congregation of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?
Context
v.3And the people strove with Moses, and spake, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!
v.4This passage
v.5And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto 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.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 16:13
is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but thou must needs make thyself also a prince over us?
- Psalms 106:21
They forgat God their Saviour, Who had done great things in Egypt,
- Acts 7:35
This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? him hath God sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer with the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush.
- Exodus 17:3
And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore hast thou brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
- Numbers 16:41
But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of Jehovah.
- Numbers 11:5
We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt for nought; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic:
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