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Exodus 17:3

MosesEgypt
Discouragement and depressionDoubt

1 Then the whole congregation of Israel left the Desert of Sin, moving from place to place as the LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.

2 So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?”

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?”

4 Then Moses cried out to the LORD, “What should I do with these people? A little more and they will stone me!”

5 And the LORD said to Moses, “Walk on ahead of the people and take some of the elders of Israel with you. Take along in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.

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BSB
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?”
KJV
And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
WEB
The people were thirsty for water there; so 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?”
ASV
And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore hast thou brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
DARBY
And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Why is it that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
BLB
And the people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, “Why [is] this—you have brought us up from Egypt to kill me and my sons and my livestock with thirst?”
ÅB
Men folket tørstet etter vann og knurret mot Moses og sa: Hvorfor har du ført oss opp fra Egypt for å la oss og våre barn og vår buskap dø av tørst?
OTB
Folket, som tørstet etter vann, klaget mot Moses og sa: «Hvorfor førte du oss opp fra Egypt, for å drepe oss og våre barn og husdyr med tørst?»
B1930
Men folket tørstet efter vann og knurret mot Moses og sa: Hvorfor har du ført oss op fra Egypten for å la oss og våre barn og vår buskap dø av tørst?

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