Numbers 20:4

4 Why did you bring the LORD’s community into this wilderness, that we and our livestock should die here?

Numbers 20:4 in Other Translations

KJV
4 And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
ESV
4 Why have you brought the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, that we should die here, both we and our cattle?
NLT
4 Why have you brought the congregation of the LORD ’s people into this wilderness to die, along with all our livestock?
MSG
4 Why did you haul this congregation of God out here into this wilderness to die, people and cattle alike?
CSB
4 Why have you brought the Lord's assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?

Numbers 20:4 In-Context

2 Now there was no water for the community, and the people gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron.
3 They quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had died when our brothers fell dead before the LORD!
4 Why did you bring the LORD’s community into this wilderness, that we and our livestock should die here?
5 Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to this terrible place? It has no grain or figs, grapevines or pomegranates. And there is no water to drink!”
6 Moses and Aaron went from the assembly to the entrance to the tent of meeting and fell facedown, and the glory of the LORD appeared to them.

Cross References 2

  • 1. S Numbers 14:2
  • 2. S Exodus 14:11; Exodus 17:3; Numbers 14:3; Numbers 16:13
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