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Numbers 20:3 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD! "
Numbers 20:3
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Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried
And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die
And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto 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.
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Numbers 20:1
"In the first month all the children of Israel came into the waste land of Zin, and put up their tents in Kadesh; there death came to Miriam, and they put her body to rest in the earth."
Numbers 20:1
"Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried"
Numbers 20:2
"And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron."
Numbers 20:4
"And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die"
Numbers 20:5
"And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto 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."
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