So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, ‘What are we to drink?’

And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron.

And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,

and in the morning you will see the glory of the  Lord, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we, that you should grumble against us?’

and in the morning you shall see the glory of the  Lord, because he has heard your grumbling against the  Lord. For what are we, that you grumble against us?”

Moses also said, ‘You will know that it was the  Lord when he gives you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you want in the morning, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we? You are not grumbling against us, but against the  Lord.’

And Moses said, “When the  Lord gives you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the  Lord has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him— what are we? Your grumbling is not against us but against the  Lord.”

Then Moses told Aaron, ‘Say to the entire Israelite community, “Come before the  Lord, for he has heard your grumbling.”’

Then Moses said to Aaron, “Say to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, ‘Come near before the  Lord, for he has heard your grumbling.’”

‘I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, “At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the  Lord your God.”’

“I have heard the grumbling of the people of Israel. Say to them, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the  Lord your God.’”

But the people were thirsty for water there, and they grumbled against Moses. They said, ‘Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?’

But the people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”

All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, ‘If only we had died in Egypt! Or in this wilderness!

And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!

‘How long will this wicked community grumble against me? I have heard the complaints of these grumbling Israelites.

“How long shall this wicked congregation grumble against me? I have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me.

in this wilderness your bodies will fall – every one of you twenty years old or more who was counted in the census and who has grumbled against me.

your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me,

So the men Moses had sent to explore the land, who returned and made the whole community grumble against him by spreading a bad report about it –

And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing up a bad report about the land—

It is against the  Lord that you and all your followers have banded together. Who is Aaron that you should grumble against him?’

Therefore it is against the  Lord that you and all your company have gathered together. What is Aaron that you grumble against him?”

The next day the whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. ‘You have killed the  Lord’s people,’ they said.

But on the next day all the congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed the people of the  Lord.”

The staff belonging to the man I choose will sprout, and I will rid myself of this constant grumbling against you by the Israelites.’

And the staff of the man whom I choose shall sprout. Thus I will make to cease from me the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against you.”

The  Lord said to Moses, ‘Put back Aaron’s staff in front of the ark of the covenant law, to be kept as a sign to the rebellious. This will put an end to their grumbling against me, so that they will not die.’

And the  Lord said to Moses, “Put back the staff of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebels, that you may make an end of their grumblings against me, lest they die.”

You grumbled in your tents and said, ‘The  Lord hates us; so he brought us out of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us.

And you murmured in your tents and said, ‘Because the  Lord hated us he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

But the Israelites did not attack them, because the leaders of the assembly had sworn an oath to them by the  Lord, the God of Israel.

The whole assembly grumbled against the leaders,

But the people of Israel did not attack them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by the  Lord, the God of Israel. Then all the congregation murmured against the leaders.

They wander about for food
and howl if not satisfied.

They wander about for food
and growl if they do not get their fill.

They grumbled in their tents
and did not obey the  Lord.

They murmured in their tents,
and did not obey the voice of the  Lord.

A perverse person stirs up conflict,
and a gossip separates close friends.

A dishonest man spreads strife,
and a whisperer separates close friends.

The words of a gossip are like choice morsels;
they go down to the inmost parts.

The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels;
they go down into the inner parts of the body.

Without wood a fire goes out;
without a gossip a quarrel dies down.

For lack of wood the fire goes out,
and where there is no whisperer quarreling ceases.

The words of a gossip are like choice morsels;
they go down to the inmost parts.

The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels;
they go down into the inner parts of the body.

Those who are wayward in spirit will gain understanding;
those who complain will accept instruction.’

And those who go astray in spirit will come to understanding,
and those who murmur will accept instruction.”