NASB
"The people thus contended with Moses and spoke, saying, "If only we had perished when our brothers perished before the LORD!"
— Numbers 20:3, NASB
“And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord!”
“And the people strove with Moses, and spake, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah! ”
“The people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, "We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!”
“The people contended with Moses, saying,“If only we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!”
“And making a sedition, they said: Would God we had perished among our brethren before the Lord.”
“And the people were angry with Moses and said, If only death had overtaken us when our brothers came to their death before the Lord!”
“And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord!”
Then the sons of Israel, the whole congregation, came to the wilderness of Zin in the first month; and the people stayed at Kadesh. Now Miriam died there and was buried there.
There was no water for the congregation, and they assembled themselves against Moses and Aaron.
The people thus contended with Moses and spoke, saying, "If only we had perished when our brothers perished before the LORD!
"Why then have you brought the LORD'S assembly into this wilderness, for us and our beasts to die here?
"Why have you made us come up from Egypt, to bring us in to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, nor is there water to drink."
Then Moses and Aaron came in from the presence of the assembly to the doorway of the tent of meeting and fell on their faces. Then the glory of the LORD appeared to them;