Num 21:5
And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for {there is} no bread, neither {is there any} water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
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Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? {furnish: Heb. order}
Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.
{Is it} a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?
And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.
And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
And {when} the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard {it}; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed {them that were} in the uttermost parts of the camp. {complained: or, were as it were complainers} {it displeased: Heb. it was evil in the ears of}
And they said unto Moses, Because {there were} no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD; for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD: and what {are} we, that ye murmur against us?
God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry {land}. {in families: Heb. in a house}
And when the children of Israel saw {it}, they said one to another, It {is} manna: for they wist not what it {was}. And Moses said unto them, This {is} the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat. {It is...: or, What is this? or, It is a portion}
The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. {loatheth: Heb. treadeth under foot}
And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it {was} like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it {was} like wafers {made} with honey.
Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
And {when} the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard {it}; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed {them that were} in the uttermost parts of the camp. {complained: or, were as it were complainers} {it displeased: Heb. it was evil in the ears of}
Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? {furnish: Heb. order}
But now our soul {is} dried away: {there is} nothing at all, beside this manna, {before} our eyes.
Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
Remember, {and} forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.
Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which {if} a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
{But} even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which {is} among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt? {whole...: Heb. month of days}
The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. {loatheth: Heb. treadeth under foot}
God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce {them} through with his arrows.
And when the children of Israel saw {it}, they said one to another, It {is} manna: for they wist not what it {was}. And Moses said unto them, This {is} the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat. {It is...: or, What is this? or, It is a portion}
And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them. {that...: Heb. at their feet}
And the fish that {is} in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.
Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.
To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust {him} from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?