Numbers 16:41
16:41 But on the next day the whole community of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the Lord’s people!” 1
Numbers 20:4
20:4 Why 2 have you brought up the Lord’s community into this wilderness? So that 3 we and our cattle should die here?
1 sn The whole congregation here is trying to project its guilt on Moses and Aaron. It was they and their rebellion that brought about the deaths, not Moses and Aaron. The Lord had punished the sinners. The fact that the leaders had organized a rebellion against the Lord was forgotten by these people. The point here is that the Israelites had learned nothing of spiritual value from the event.
2 tn Heb “and why….” The conjunction seems to be recording another thing that the people said in their complaint against Moses.
3 tn The clause uses the infinitive construct with the lamed (ל) preposition. The clause would be a result clause in this sentence: “Why have you brought us here…with the result that we will all die?”