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


In Context

1 The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month: and the people stayed in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.

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

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

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

5 Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:3And the people contended with Moses, and spoke, 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 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!