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Éxodo 17:3

Listen to Éxodo 17:3
3 Pero los israelitas estaban sedientos, y murmuraron contra Moisés.—¿Para qué nos sacaste de Egipto? —reclamaban—. ¿Solo para matarnos de sed a nosotros, a nuestros hijos y a nuestro ganado?

Éxodo 17:3 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 17:3

And the people thirsted there for water
They saw there was no water when they first came thither, and therefore chid Moses for bringing them to such a place, where they could not subsist; and having stayed some little time here, and all the water they brought with them from Alush being spent, and having none to drink, began to be very thirsty:

and the people murmured against Moses;
became more impatient and enraged, and threw out their invectives against him with much acrimony and severity:

wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt?
where it would have been much better for us to have continued:

to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst:
which is intolerable to any, and especially to children and cattle, which require frequent drinking: they could not suppose that Moses had such a murderous view in bringing them out of Egypt, or that this was his intention in it, but that this would be the issue and event of it.

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Éxodo 17:3 In-Context

1 Toda la comunidad israelita partió del desierto de Sin por etapas, según lo había ordenado el SEÑOR. Acamparon en Refidín, pero no había allí agua para que bebieran,
2 así que altercaron con Moisés.—Danos agua para beber —le exigieron.—¿Por qué pelean conmigo? —se defendió Moisés—. ¿Por qué provocan al SEÑOR?
3 Pero los israelitas estaban sedientos, y murmuraron contra Moisés.—¿Para qué nos sacaste de Egipto? —reclamaban—. ¿Solo para matarnos de sed a nosotros, a nuestros hijos y a nuestro ganado?
4 Clamó entonces Moisés al SEÑOR, y le dijo:—¿Qué voy a hacer con este pueblo? ¡Solo falta que me maten a pedradas!
5 —Adelántate al pueblo —le aconsejó el SEÑOR— y llévate contigo a algunos ancianos de Israel, pero lleva también la vara con que golpeaste el Nilo. Ponte en marcha,
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