Discovery BoxNumbers 20:4 
Context20:4 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
Context27:4 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.”
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.
