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


In Context

1 And the sons of Israel come in, — all the company — to the wilderness of Zin, in the first month, and the people abide in Kadesh, and Miriam dieth there, and is buried there.

2 And there hath been no water for the company, and they are assembled against Moses, and against Aaron,

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

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

5 and why hast thou brought us up out of Egypt to bring us in unto this evil place? no place of seed, and fig, and vine, and pomegranate; and water there is none 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 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 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!