Numbers 20:3 Cross References - Leeser

³ And the people quarreled with Moses, and said thus, Oh that we had but perished when our brethren perished before the Lord!

² And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: ³ And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pot, when we ate bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

² And the people quarrelled with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink; and Moses said unto them, Why will ye quarrel with me? why will ye tempt the Lord?

¹ And it came to pass that as the people complained in a manner displeasing in the ears of the Lord, the Lord heard it, and his anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed at the uttermost part of the camp.

³³ The flesh was yet between their teeth, it was not yet chewed: when the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote among the people a very great plague. ³⁴ And he called the name of that place Kibroth-hattaavah; because there they buried the people that had lustfully craved.

¹ And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried aloud; and the people wept that night. ² And all the people murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and the whole congregation said unto them, Oh who would grant that we had died in the land of Egypt! or that we might but die in this wilderness!

³⁶ And the men whom Moses had sent to spy out the land, and who returned, and caused all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land, ³⁷ Even these men, that had brought up the evil report of the land, died by the plague before the Lord.

³¹ And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground that was under them was cloven asunder: ³² And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korach, and all their goods. ³³ And they went down, they, and all they that appertained to them, alive into the pit; and the earth closed over them, and they disappeared from the midst of the congregation. ³⁴ And all Israel that were round about them fled at their cry; for they said, Perhaps the earth may swallow us up also. ³⁵ And there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that had offered the incense.

^{49 (17:14)} And those who died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those that had died about the matter of Korach.

¹⁰ Because God closed not against me the doors of the womb, and thus concealed trouble from my eyes. ¹¹ Why did I not die the moment I issued from the womb, and why was I not born merely to perish at once?

⁹ Happier are those slain by the sword than those slain by hunger; for those poured forth their blood, being pierced through,—these perished without the fruits of the field.