NET Bible
"Why have you brought up the LORD’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?"
— Numbers 20:4, NET Bible
“And why have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?”
“And why have ye brought the assembly of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts? ”
“Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?”
“Why have you brought out the church of the Lord into the wilderness, that both we and our cattle should die?”
“Why have you taken the Lord's people into this waste, for death to come to us and to our cattle there?”
“And why have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?”
The Israelites Complain Again Then the entire community of Israel entered the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died and was buried there.
And there was no water for the community, and so they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron.
The people contended with Moses, saying,“If only we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!
Why have you brought up the LORD’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?
Why have you brought us up from Egypt only to bring us to this dreadful place? It is no place for grain, or figs, or vines, or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink!”
Moses Responds So Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance to the tent of meeting. They then threw themselves down with their faces to the ground, and the glory of the LORD appeared to them.
Then the LORD spoke to Moses: