Numbers 20:3 meaning and explanation

The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!

Numbers 20:3, Berean Standard Bible

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At Kadesh the wilderness congregation has no water, and their complaint turns bitter. They are the generation that left Egypt, camped near the border of Edom, and they wish they had died with the rebels who perished before the LORD, likely referring to Korah's company in Numbers 16.

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