Numbers 20:3 Parallel Translations

The people complained to Moses and said, "If only we had died when the other Israelites died in the LORD's presence!(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

And the people were angry with Moses and said, If only death had overtaken us when our brothers came to their death before the Lord!

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

JPS:

And the people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying: 'Would that we had perished when our brethren perished before the LORD!

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

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

Numbers 20:3 Cross References

XREF:

Exodus 17:2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, "Give us water that we may drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?"

Numbers 14:2 All the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron; and the whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!

Numbers 14:3 "Why is the LORD bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become plunder; would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?"

Numbers 16:31 As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split open; (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

20:3 Before the Lord - Suddenly, rather than to die such a lingering death. Their sin was much greater than that of their parents, because they should have taken warning by their miscarriages, and by the terrible effects of them, which their eyes had seen.

MHC:

20:1-13 After thirty-eight years' tedious abode in the wilderness, the armies of Israel advanced towards Canaan again. There was no water for the congregation. We live in a wanting world, and wherever we are, must expect to meet with something to put us out. It is a great mercy to have plenty of water, a mercy which, if we found the want of, we should more own the worth of. Hereupon they murmured against Moses and Aaron. They spake the same absurd and brutish language their fathers had done. It made their crime the worse, that they had smarted so long for the discontent and distrusts of their fathers, yet they venture in the same steps. Moses must again, in God's name, command water out of a rock for them; God is as able as ever to supply his people with what is needful for them. But Moses and Aaron acted wrong. They took much of the glory of this work of wonder to themselves; Must we fetch water? As if it were done by some power or worthiness of their own. They were to speak to the rock, but they smote it. Therefore it is charged upon them, that they did not sanctify God, that is, they did not give to him alone that glory of this miracle which was due unto his name. And being provoked by the people, Moses spake unadvisedly with his lips. The same pride of man would still usurp the office of the appointed Mediator; and become to ourselves wisdom, righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. Such a state of sinful independence, such a rebellion of the soul against its Saviour, the voice of God condemns in every page of the gospel.

CONC:

Angry Brethren Brothers Chid Chode Contended Dead Death Died Expired Fell O Oh Overtaken Perished Saying Spake Speak Spoke Strive Strove Thus Wish

Angry Chid Chode Contended Dead Death Died Expired Moses Overtaken Perished Quarreled Speak Strive Strove

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