Numbers 20:4

Translations

Modern

Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?

Traditional

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

Literal

And why have you brought up the assembly of YHWH into this wilderness to die here—we and our livestock?

Latin

Cur eduxistis ecclesiam Domini in solitudinem, ut et nos et nostra jumenta moriamur?

Original

Hebrew

English

Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?

Notes

Numbers 20:2–13

The people of Israel complained again about not having water and food (compare 11:4–35; 21:4–5; Exodus 15:22–25). So, Moses and Aaron disobeyed the Lord. As a result, they lost the privilege of entering the promised land.

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Aaron Eleazar Moses

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Exodus 17:3
But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”
Psalm 106:21
They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,
Numbers 16:41
The next day the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the LORD’s people!”
Exodus 5:21
“May the LORD look upon you and judge you,” the foremen said, “for you have made us a stench before Pharaoh and his officials; you have placed in their hand a sword to kill us!”
Exodus 16:3
“If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”
Numbers 11:5
We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.
Numbers 16:13–14
Is it not enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Must you also appoint yourself as ruler over us?
Acts 7:35
This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
Exodus 14:11–12
They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?
Acts 7:39–40
But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

Numbers 20:4

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