Numbers 14:2
1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
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!
3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into 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
- 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!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Exodus 15:24
And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
Read in contextNumbers 16:41
But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.
Read in contextExodus 17:3
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?
Read in context1 Corinthians 10:10
Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
Read in contextNumbers 14:27–29
How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
Read in contextExodus 16:2–3
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
Read in contextPhilippians 2:14–15
Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
Read in contextJude 1:16
These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
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