Numbers 14:2 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 14:2

All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!

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ASV

And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!

KJV

And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּלֹּ֙נוּ֙	vai.yi.Lo.nu	and they grumbled	H3885 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
מֹשֶׁ֣ה	mo.Sheh	Moses	H4872 →
וְעַֽל־	ve.'al-	and on	H5921 →
אַהֲרֹ֔ן	'a.ha.Ron	Aaron	H175 →
כֹּ֖ל	kol	all	H3605 →
בְּנֵ֣י	be.Nei	[the] people of	H1121 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
וַֽיֹּאמְר֨וּ	vai.yo.me.Ru	and they said	H559 →
אֲלֵהֶ֜ם	'a.le.Hem	to them	H413 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
הָעֵדָ֗ה	ha.'e.Dah	the congregation	H5712 →
לוּ־	lu-	if	H3863 →
מַ֙תְנוּ֙	mat.nu	we had died	H4191 →
בְּאֶ֣רֶץ	be.'E.retz	in [the] land of	H776 →
מִצְרַ֔יִם	mitz.Ra.yim	Egypt	H4714 →
א֛וֹ	'o	or	H176 →
בַּמִּדְבָּ֥ר	ba.mid.Bar	in the wilderness	H4057 →
הַזֶּ֖ה	ha.Zeh	<the> this	H2088 →
לוּ־	lu-	if	H3863 →
מָֽתְנוּ׃	Ma.te.nu	we had died	H4191 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Corinthians 10:10
And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.
leads to
- Numbers 16:41
  The next day the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the LORD’s people!”
- Numbers 14:37
  those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.
- Philippians 2:14
  Do everything without complaining or arguing,
- 1 Chronicles 21:15
  Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the…
- Psalms 106:25
  They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.
Through
Exodus 15:24
So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”
leads to
- Exodus 16:2
  And there in the desert they all grumbled against Moses and Aaron.
- Exodus 14:11
  They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?
Through
Exodus 17:3
But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”
leads to
- Exodus 16:2–3
  And there in the desert they all grumbled against Moses and Aaron.