New English Translation

Numbers 20:4-7 New English Translation (NET)

4. Why have you brought up the Lord’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?

5. Why have you brought us up from Egypt only to bring us to this dreadful place? It is no place for grain, or figs, or vines, or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink!”

6. So Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance to the tent of meeting. They then threw themselves down with their faces to the ground, and the glory of the Lord appeared to them.

7. Then the Lord spoke to Moses: