"And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!"
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And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.
And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
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.
Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:
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?
And the people were angry with Moses and said, If only death had overtaken us when our brothers came to their death before the Lord!
And the people contended with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!
And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
And the people chid with Moses, and spoke, saying, O that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
The people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!
and the people strive with Moses, and speak, saying, `And oh that we had expired when our brethren expired before Jehovah!