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Numbers 20:4-6
New English Translation

4 Why[a] have you brought up the Lord’s community into this wilderness? So that[b] we and our cattle should die here? 5 Why[c] have you brought us up from Egypt only to bring[d] us to this dreadful place? It is no place for grain, or figs, or vines, or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink!”

Moses Responds

6 So Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance to the tent of meeting. They then threw themselves down with their faces to the ground, and the glory of the Lord appeared to them.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 20:4 tn Heb “and why….” The conjunction seems to be recording another thing that the people said in their complaint against Moses.
  2. Numbers 20:4 tn The clause uses the infinitive construct with the preposition ל (lamed) preposition. The clause would be a result clause in this sentence: “Why have you brought us here…with the result that we will all die?”
  3. Numbers 20:5 tn Heb “and why.”
  4. Numbers 20:5 tn Here also the infinitive construct (Hiphil) forms the subordinate clause of the preceding interrogative clause.
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