Números 20:5

5 ¿Por qué nos obligaste a salir de Egipto y nos trajiste a este terrible lugar? ¡Esta tierra no tiene grano ni higos ni uvas ni granadas ni agua para beber!».

Números 20:5 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 20:5

And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt
They represent that affair in such a light, as if they were forced out of Egypt by Moses and Aaron against their wills; or at least were overpersuaded by them to do what they had no inclination to, namely, to come out of Egypt; though they were in the utmost bondage and slavery, and their lives were made bitter by it, and they cried by reason of their oppression, and the hardships they endured; but this was all forgot. Aben Ezra says, it is a strange word which is here used, which shows the confusion they were in:

to bring us unto this evil place;
dry and barren, where there were neither food nor drink, as follows:

it is no place of seed;
or fit for sowing, as the Targum of Jonathan, any sort of seed, as wheat, barley, rye, rice

or of figs, or vines, or pomegranates;
it is not a soil fit to plant such trees in, nor would they grow were they planted:

neither is there any water to drink;
for them and their cattle, and therefore must be a miserable place for so large a body of people to subsist in.

Números 20:5 In-Context

3 El pueblo culpó a Moisés y dijo: «¡Si tan solo hubiéramos muerto con nuestros hermanos delante del Señor
!

4 ¿Por qué trajiste a la congregación del pueblo del Señor
a este desierto para morir, junto con todos nuestros animales?

5 ¿Por qué nos obligaste a salir de Egipto y nos trajiste a este terrible lugar? ¡Esta tierra no tiene grano ni higos ni uvas ni granadas ni agua para beber!».

6 Entonces Moisés y Aarón se apartaron del pueblo y fueron a la entrada del tabernáculo,
donde cayeron rostro en tierra. Allí la presencia gloriosa del Señor
se les apareció,

7 y el Señor
le dijo a Moisés: