Numbers 20:3

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Exod 17:2 : 2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink." Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?"
  • Num 16:31-35 : 31 It happened, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground split apart that was under them; 32 and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods. 33 So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly. 34 All Israel that were around them fled at the cry of them; for they said, "Lest the earth swallow us up!" 35 Fire came forth from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.
  • Num 16:49 : 49 Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those who died about the matter of Korah.
  • Num 11:1 : 1 The people were complaining in the ears of Yahweh. When Yahweh heard it, his anger was kindled; and Yahweh's fire burnt among them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.
  • Num 11:33-34 : 33 While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague. 34 The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.
  • Num 14:1-2 : 1 All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. 2 All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against 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!
  • Num 14:36-37 : 36 The men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land, 37 even those men who did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.
  • Job 3:10-11 : 10 because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes. 11 "Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
  • Lam 4:9 : 9 Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.
  • Exod 16:2-3 : 2 The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness; 3 and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

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  • Num 14:1-4
    4 verses
    87%

    1 All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

    2 All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against 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!

    3 Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?"

    4 They said one to another, "Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt."

  • Exod 17:2-4
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    82%

    2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink." Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?"

    3 The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"

    4 Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me."

  • Num 20:4-5
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    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."

  • Exod 16:2-3
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    2 The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

    3 and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

  • Num 21:4-7
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    4 They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.

    5 The people spoke against God, and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread."

    6 Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many people of Israel died.

    7 The people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh, and against you. Pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us." Moses prayed for the people.

  • Num 20:2
    78%

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

  • Exod 14:11-12
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    11 They said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us forth out of Egypt?

    12 Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness."

  • Exod 20:19
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    19 They said to Moses, "Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don't let God speak with us, lest we die."

  • Exod 15:24
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    24 The people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?"

  • Num 17:12
    76%

    12 The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, "Behold, we perish! We are undone! We are all undone!

  • Deut 1:27
    75%

    27 and you murmured in your tents, and said, "Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

  • Num 16:41
    75%

    41 But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, "You have killed Yahweh's people!"

  • Num 27:15
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    15 Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying,

  • Num 11:1
    72%

    1 The people were complaining in the ears of Yahweh. When Yahweh heard it, his anger was kindled; and Yahweh's fire burnt among them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.

  • Exod 32:11
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    11 Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

  • Num 16:13
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    13 is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us?

  • Ps 106:32
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    32 They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;

  • Num 14:39
    72%

    39 Moses told these words to all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

  • Exod 5:21-22
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    72%

    21 and they said to them, "May Yahweh look at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us."

    22 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?

  • Num 20:15
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    15 how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:

  • Num 11:10
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    10 Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and the anger of Yahweh was kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased.

  • Heb 3:17
    71%

    17 With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn't it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

  • Num 14:11
    71%

    11 Yahweh said to Moses, "How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?

  • Exod 16:8
    71%

    8 Moses said, "Now Yahweh shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh."

  • Num 20:10
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    10 Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels; shall we bring you water out of this rock for you?"

  • Num 14:27
    70%

    27 "How long [shall I bear] with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

  • Num 25:10
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    10 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Acts 7:40
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    40 saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.'

  • Num 11:20
    70%

    20 but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because that you have rejected Yahweh who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, "Why did we come out of Egypt?"'"

  • Num 16:23
    70%

    23 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 12:2
    70%

    2 They said, "Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn't he spoken also with us?" And Yahweh heard it.

  • Ps 106:16
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    16 They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, Yahweh's saint.

  • Exod 6:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9 Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn't listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

    10 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 20:13
    69%

    13 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.

  • Deut 1:34
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    34 Yahweh heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying,