Numbers 20:4

20:4 Why ¹  have you brought up the Lord’s community into this wilderness? So that ²  we and our cattle should die here?

Numbers 27:4

27:4 Why should the name of our father be lost from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession ³  among the relatives ⁴  of our father.”

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¹ tn Heb “and why….” The conjunction seems to be recording another thing that the people said in their complaint against Moses.

² 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?”

³ tn That is, the possession of land, or property, among the other families of their tribe.

⁴ tn The word is “brothers,” but this can be interpreted more loosely to relatives. So also in v. 7.