4Why did you bring the Lord 's community into this desert, that we and our livestock should die here?


In Context

1 In the first month the whole Israelite community arrived at the Desert of Zin, and they stayed at Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.

2 Now there was no water for the community, and the people gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron.

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

4 Why did you bring the Lord 's community into this desert, that we and our livestock should die here?

5 Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to this terrible place? It has no grain or figs, grapevines or pomegranates. And there is no water to drink!"

6 Moses and Aaron went from the assembly to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and fell facedown, and the glory of the Lord appeared to them.

Numbers 20:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:4And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:4Why have you brought out the church of the Lord into the wilderness, that both we and our cattle should die?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:4And why have ye brought the assembly of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:4And why have ye brought the congregation of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:4And why have ye brought the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our cattle?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:4And why have ye brought the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:4Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:4and why have ye brought in the assembly of Jehovah unto this wilderness to die there, we and our beasts?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:4And why have you brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?