Numbers 14:1
Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.
2 All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!
3 Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.
- KJV
- And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
- WEB
- All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
- ASV
- And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
- DARBY
- And the whole assembly lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
- BLB
- And all the congregation lifted up and gave forth their voices, and the people wept that night.
- ÅB
- Da tok hele menigheten til å rope og skrike, og folket gråt hele natten.
- OTB
- Den natten ropte hele menigheten høyt og gråt, og folket gråt.
- B1930
- Da tok hele menigheten til å rope og skrike, og folket gråt hele natten.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 1:45
And you returned and wept before the LORD, but He would not listen to your voice or give ear to you.
Read in contextNumbers 11:1–4
Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.
Read in context