Êxodo 17:3

3 Mas o povo estava sedento e reclamou a Moisés: “Por que você nos tirou do Egito? Foi para matar de sede a nós, aos nossos filhos e aos nossos rebanhos?”

Êxodo 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.

Êxodo 17:3 In-Context

1 Toda a comunidade de Israel partiu do deserto de Sim, andando de um lugar para outro, conforme a ordem do SENHOR. Acamparam em Refidim, mas lá não havia água para beber.

2 Por essa razão queixaram-se a Moisés e exigiram: “Dê-nos água para beber”.Ele respondeu: “Por que se queixam a mim? Por que põem o SENHOR à prova?”

3 Mas o povo estava sedento e reclamou a Moisés: “Por que você nos tirou do Egito? Foi para matar de sede a nós, aos nossos filhos e aos nossos rebanhos?”

4 Então Moisés clamou ao SENHOR: “Que farei com este povo? Estão a ponto de apedrejar-me!”

5 Respondeu-lhe o SENHOR: “Passe à frente do povo. Leve com você algumas das autoridades de Israel, tenha na mão a vara com a qual você feriu o Nilo e vá adiante.