Numbers 20:5 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 20:5

Why have you led us up out of Egypt to bring us to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain, figs, vines, or pomegranates—and there is no water to drink!”

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ASV

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.

KJV

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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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְלָמָ֤ה	ve.la.Mah	and <to> why?	H4100 →
הֶֽעֱלִיתֻ֙נוּ֙	he.'e.li.Tu.nu	have you brought up us	H5927 →
מִמִּצְרַ֔יִם	mi.mitz.Ra.yim	from Egypt	H4714 →
לְהָבִ֣יא	le.ha.Vi'	to bring	H935 →
אֹתָ֔נוּ	'o.Ta.nu	<obj.> us	H853 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
הַמָּק֥וֹם	ha.ma.Kom	the place	H4725 →
הָרָ֖ע	ha.Ra'	the evil	H7451 →
הַזֶּ֑ה	ha.Zeh	<the> this	H2088 →
לֹ֣א׀	lo'	not	H3808 →
מְק֣וֹם	me.Kom	a place of	H4725 →
זֶ֗רַע	Ze.ra'	seed	H2233 →
וּתְאֵנָ֤ה	u.te.'e.Nah	and fig tree	H8384 →
וְגֶ֙פֶן֙	ve.Ge.fen	and vine	H1612 →
וְרִמּ֔וֹן	ve.ri.Mon	and pomegranate	H7416 →
וּמַ֥יִם	u.Ma.yim	and [is] water	H4325 →
אַ֖יִן	'A.yin	there not	H369 →
לִשְׁתּֽוֹת׃	lish.Tot	to drink	H8354 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

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
Nehemiah 9:21
For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 2:7
  Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these…
- Deuteronomy 8:4
  Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.
- Deuteronomy 29:5
  For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.
- Psalms 34:10
  Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
Through
Deuteronomy 8:15
He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.
leads to
- Numbers 21:6
  So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.
- Numbers 20:11
  Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, so that a great amount of water gushed out, and the congregation and their livestock were able to drink.
Through
Jeremiah 2:6
They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 32:10
  He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
- Deuteronomy 8:14–16
  then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

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