Numbers 20:3

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Numbers 20:3

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The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!

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KJV

King James Version

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

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The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!

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ASV

American Standard Version

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

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Numbers 20

¹ In the first month, the whole congregation of Israel entered the Wilderness of Zin and stayed in Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.

² Now there was no water for the congregation, so they gathered against Moses and Aaron.

³ The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!

⁴ Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?

⁵ Why have you led us up out of Egypt to bring us to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain, figs, vines, or pomegranates—and there is no water to drink!”

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