Numbers 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 32:16
ContextThe Offer of the Reubenites and Gadites
32:16 Then they came very close to him and said, “We will build sheep folds here for our flocks and cities for our families, 3
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 Heb “our little ones.”