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Numbers 20:5

Egypt
DoubtDiscouragement and depression

3 The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!

4 Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?

Why have you led us up out of Egypt to bring us to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain, figs, vines, or pomegranates—and there is no water to drink!”

6 Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. They fell facedown, and the glory of the LORD appeared to them.

7 And the LORD said to Moses,

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BSB
Why have you led us up out of Egypt to bring us to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain, figs, vines, or pomegranates—and there is no water to drink!”
KJV
And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.
WEB
Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.”
ASV
And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.
DARBY
And why have ye made us to go up out of Egypt, to bring us to this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates, neither is there any water to drink.
BLB
And why have you⁺ made us come up out of Egypt to bring us to this evil place? It [is] not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, and there is no water to drink.”
ÅB
Og hvorfor har dere ført oss opp fra Egypt, så vi er kommet til dette onde sted, hvor det hverken vokser korn eller fiken eller vintrær eller granatepler, og hvor det ikke finnes vann å drikke?
OTB
Hvorfor førte du oss opp fra Egypt til dette fryktelige stedet? Det er ikke et sted med korn, fikener, vinranker eller granatepler, og det er ikke vann å drikke!”
B1930
Og hvorfor har I ført oss op fra Egypten, så vi er kommet til dette onde sted, hvor det hverken vokser korn eller fiken eller vintrær eller granatepler, og hvor det ikke finnes vann å drikke?

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Cross references

  • Numbers 16:14

    Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? No, we will not come!”

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  • Jeremiah 2:6

    They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’

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  • Ezekiel 20:36

    Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord GOD.

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  • Jeremiah 2:2

    “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

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  • Nehemiah 9:21

    For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

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  • Deuteronomy 8:15

    He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.

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