


Exodus 16:3
Bible Versions
And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, [and] when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
And the children {H1121} of Israel {H3478} said {H559} unto them, Would to God {H4310}{H5414} we had died {H4191} by the hand {H3027} of the LORD {H3068} in the land {H776} of Egypt {H4714}, when we sat {H3427} by the flesh {H1320} pots {H5518}, and when we did eat {H398} bread {H3899} to the full {H7648}; for ye have brought us forth {H3318} into this wilderness {H4057}, to kill {H4191} this whole assembly {H6951} with hunger {H7458}.
The people of Isra'el said to them, "We wish ADONAI had used his own hand to kill us off in Egypt! There we used to sit around the pots with the meat boiling, and we had as much food as we wanted. But you have taken us out into this desert to let this whole assembly starve to death!"
“If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”
and the children of Israel said unto them, Would that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
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