3And the people contended with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!


In Context

1 And the children of Israel, the whole assembly, came into the wilderness of Zin, in the first month; and the people abode at Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.

2 And there was no water for the assembly, and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.

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

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

5 And why have ye made us to go up out of Egypt, to bring us to 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.

Numbers 20:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:3And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

20:3They quarreled with Moses and said, "If only we had died when our brothers fell dead before the Lord !

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:3And making a sedition, they said: Would God we had perished among our brethren before the Lord.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:3And the people strove with Moses, and spake, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:3And the people strove with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:3And the people chid with Moses, and spoke, saying, O that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:3The people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, |We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:3and the people strive with Moses, and speak, saying, 'And oh that we had expired when our brethren expired before Jehovah!

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:3And the people strived with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would God that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!