Exodus 16:3
“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 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 of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by the Lord’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
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.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Would
- Numbers 20:3–5; Deuteronomy 28:67; Joshua 7:7; 2 Samuel 18:33; Lamentations 4:9; Acts 26:29; 1 Corinthians 4:8; 2 Corinthians 11:1
- we had
- Numbers 11:15; Numbers 14:2; Job 3:1, 10, 20; Jeremiah 20:14–18; Jonah 4:8, 9
- flesh
- Exodus 2:23; Numbers 11:4, 5
- to kill
- Exodus 5:21; Exodus 17:3; Numbers 16:13, 41
- hunger
- Deuteronomy 8:3; Jeremiah 2:6; Lamentations 4:9