Números 20:5

5 ¿Para qué nos sacaste de Egipto y nos metiste en este horrible lugar? Aquí no hay semillas, ni higueras, ni viñas, ni granados, ¡y ni siquiera hay agua!»

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 y le reclamaron a Moisés: «¡Ojalá el SEÑOR nos hubiera dejado morir junto con nuestros hermanos!

4 ¿No somos acaso la asamblea del SEÑOR? ¿Para qué nos trajiste a este desierto, a morir con nuestro ganado?

5 ¿Para qué nos sacaste de Egipto y nos metiste en este horrible lugar? Aquí no hay semillas, ni higueras, ni viñas, ni granados, ¡y ni siquiera hay agua!»

6 Moisés y Aarón se apartaron de la asamblea y fueron a la entrada de la Tienda de reunión, donde se postraron rostro en tierra. Entonces la gloria del SEÑOR se manifestó ante ellos,

7 y el SEÑOR le dijo a Moisés: