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Numbers 20:4

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Why have you brought Yahweh’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?

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Numbers 20:4 in other translations

And why have ye brought the assembly of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?

Numbers 20:4 · American Standard Version

Numbers 20:4 in context

  1. 2There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
  2. 3The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!
  3. 4Why have you brought Yahweh’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?
  4. 5Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.”
  5. 6Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on their faces. Yahweh’s glory appeared to them.