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 all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

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:

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 the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:

Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.

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.

{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. {pine...: Heb. flow out}

Because it shut not up the doors of my {mother's} womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

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,

Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted {him} in Massah.

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.

Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for {it is} better for me to die than to live.

Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? {furnish: Heb. order}

{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?