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Numbers 20:4 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

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

Numbers 20:4

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2 There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.

3 The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!

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

5 Why 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.”

6 Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on their faces. The LORD’s glory appeared to them.

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Exodus 16:3

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"and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”"

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Numbers 21:5

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"The people spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, there is no water, and our soul loathes this disgusting food!”"

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Exodus 14:11

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"They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?"

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Deuteronomy 9:28

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"lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’"

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Numbers 14:3

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"Why does the LORD bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”"

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Baruch 3:8

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"Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity where you have scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to penalty according to all the iniquities of our fathers who departed from the Lord our God."

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Numbers 20:1

"The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there."

Numbers 20:2

"There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron."

Numbers 20:3

"The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!"

Numbers 20:5

"Why 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.”"

Numbers 20:6

"Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on their faces. The LORD’s glory appeared to them."

Numbers 20:7

"The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,"

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