Numbers 20:4
Good News Translation
Why have you brought us out into this wilderness? Just so that we can die here with our animals?

New Revised Standard Version
Why have you brought the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?

Contemporary English Version
You brought us into this desert, and now we and our livestock are going to die!

New American Bible
Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Why have you brought out the church of the Lord into the wilderness, that both we and our cattle should die?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Why have you brought out the church of the Lord into the wilderness, that both we and our cattle should die?

why

Numbers 11:5 We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt free cost: the cucumbers come into our mind, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic.

Exodus 5:21 And they said to them: The Lord see and judge, because you have, made our savour to stink before Pharao and his servants, and you have given him a sword, to kill us.

Exodus 17:3 So the people were thirsty there for want of water, and murmured against Moses, saying: Why didst thou make us go forth out of Egypt, to kill us and our children, and our beasts with thirst?

Psalm 106:21 They forgot God, who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt,

Acts 7:35,39,40 This Moses, whom they refused, saying: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge? Him God sent to be prince and redeemer, by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the burning bush. . . .

that we

Numbers 16:13,14,41 Is it a small matter to thee, that thou hast brought us out of a land that flowed with milk and honey, to kill us in the desert, except thou rule also like a lord over us? . . .

Exodus 14:11,12 And they said to Moses: Perhaps there were no graves in Egypt, therefore thou hast brought us to die in the wilderness: why wouldst thou do this, to lead us out of Egypt? . . .

Exodus 16:3 And the children of Israel said to them: Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat over the fleshpots, and ate bread to the full: Why have you brought us into this desert, that you might destroy all the multitude with famine?

Context
Water from the Rock
3And making a sedition, they said: Would God we had perished among our brethren before the Lord. 4Why have you brought out the church of the Lord into the wilderness, that both we and our cattle should die?5Why have you made us come up out of Egypt, and have brought us into this wretched place which cannot be sowed, nor bringeth forth figs, nor vines, nor pomegranates, neither is there any water to drink?…
Cross References
Exodus 17:3
So the people were thirsty there for want of water, and murmured against Moses, saying: Why didst thou make us go forth out of Egypt, to kill us and our children, and our beasts with thirst?

Numbers 14:2
And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying:

Judges 11:16
But when they came up out of Egypt, he walked through the desert to the Red Sea, and came into Cades.

Numbers 20:3
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