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Exodus 17:4

Moses
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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?”

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?”

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.

6 Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

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BSB
Then Moses cried out to the LORD, “What should I do with these people? A little more and they will stone me!”
KJV
And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
WEB
Moses cried to the LORD, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
ASV
And Moses cried unto Jehovah, saying, What shall I do unto this people? They are almost ready to stone me.
DARBY
And Moses cried to Jehovah, saying, What shall I do with this people? Yet a little, and they will stone me!
BLB
And Moses cried out to YHWH, saying, “What shall I do for this people? A little longer and they will stone me!”
ÅB
Da ropte Moses til Herren og sa: Hva skal jeg gjøre med dette folk? Det er ikke langt fra at de steiner meg!
OTB
Moses ropte til Herren: «Hva skal jeg gjøre med dette folket? De er nesten klare til å steine meg!»
B1930
Da ropte Moses til Herren og sa: Hvad skal jeg gjøre med dette folk? Det er ikke langt fra at de stener mig!

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  • 1 Samuel 30:6

    And David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of every man grieved for his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.

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  • Numbers 14:10

    But the whole congregation threatened to stone Joshua and Caleb. Then the glory of the LORD appeared to all the Israelites at the Tent of Meeting.

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  • John 8:59

    At this, they picked up stones to throw at Him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple area.

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  • John 10:31

    At this, the Jews again picked up stones to stone Him.

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  • Acts 14:19

    Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and won over the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, presuming he was dead.

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  • Numbers 16:19

    When Korah had gathered his whole assembly against them at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, the glory of the LORD appeared to the whole congregation.

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  • Exodus 15:25

    And Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log. And when he cast it into the waters, they were sweetened. There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them,

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  • Acts 7:50

    Has not My hand made all these things?’

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