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Numbers 14:2

AaronIsraelMosesEgypt
Discouragement and depression

1 Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.

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?”

4 So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”

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BSB
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!
KJV
And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
WEB
All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!
ASV
And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!
DARBY
And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and the whole assembly said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or in this wilderness would that we had died!
BLB
And all the sons of Israel complained 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!
ÅB
Og alle Israels barn knurret mot Moses og Aron, og hele menigheten sa til dem: Gid vi var død i Egypt eller her i ørkenen! Å, at vi var død!
OTB
Alle israelittene klaget mot Moses og Aron, og hele menigheten sa til dem: “Hadde vi bare omkommet i Egypt! Eller til og med i denne ørkenen!
B1930
Og alle Israels barn knurret mot Moses og Aron, og hele menigheten sa til dem: Gid vi var død i Egyptens land eller her i ørkenen! Å, at vi var død!

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