Exodus 16:2

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The whole congregation of the children of Yisra'el murmured against Moshe and against Aharon in the wilderness;

King James Version
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:

Lexham English Bible
And all the community of the Israelites grumbled against Moses and against Aaron in the desert.

New Century Version
Then the whole Israelite community grumbled to Moses and Aaron in the desert.

New English Translation
The entire company of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the desert.

Amplified Bible
The whole congregation of the Israelites [grew discontented and] murmured and rebelled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,

New American Standard Bible
But the whole congregation of the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the whole Congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses & against Aaron in the wildernesse.

Legacy Standard Bible
And the whole congregation of the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

Contemporary English Version
There in the desert they started complaining to Moses and Aaron,

Complete Jewish Bible
There in the desert the whole community of the people of Isra'el grumbled against Moshe and Aharon.

Darby Translation
And the whole assembly of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then the whole community of Israelites began complaining again. They complained to Moses and Aaron in the desert.

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

George Lamsa Translation
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness;

Good News Translation
There in the desert they all complained to Moses and Aaron

Christian Standard Bible®
The entire Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

Literal Translation
And all the congregation of the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And ye whole multitude of the children of Israel murmured agaynst Moses and Aaron in ye wildernes,

American Standard Version
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness:

Bible in Basic English
And all the children of Israel were crying out against Moses and Aaron in the waste land:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the whole congregation of the chyldren of Israel murmured agaynst Moyses and Aaron in the wyldernesse.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

King James Version (1611)
And the whole Congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wildernesse.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron.

English Revised Version
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness:

Berean Standard Bible
And there in the desert they all grumbled against Moses and Aaron.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And al the congregacioun of the sones of Israel grutchide ayens Moises, and ayens Aaron, in the wildirnesse.

Young's Literal Translation
And all the company of the sons of Israel murmur against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

Update Bible Version
And the whole congregation of the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness:

Webster's Bible Translation
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

World English Bible
The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

New King James Version
Then the whole congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

New Living Translation
There, too, the whole community of Israel complained about Moses and Aaron.

New Life Bible
And all the people of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron in the desert,

New Revised Standard
The whole congregation of the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then did all the assembly of the sons of Israel murmur against Moses and against Aaron in the desert;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

Revised Standard Version
And the whole congregation of the people of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The whole congregation of the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

Contextual Overview

¹On the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left Egypt, the whole company of Israel moved on from Elim to the Wilderness of Sin which is between Elim and Sinai. The whole company of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron there in the wilderness. The Israelites said, "Why didn't God let us die in comfort in Egypt where we had lamb stew and all the bread we could eat? You've brought us out into this wilderness to starve us to death, the whole company of Israel!" ⁴ God said to Moses, "I'm going to rain bread down from the skies for you. The people will go out and gather each day's ration. I'm going to test them to see if they'll live according to my Teaching or not. On the sixth day, when they prepare what they have gathered, it will turn out to be twice as much as their daily ration." ⁶Moses and Aaron told the People of Israel, "This evening you will know that it is God who brought you out of Egypt; and in the morning you will see the Glory of God . Yes, he's listened to your complaints against him. You haven't been complaining against us, you know, but against God ." ⁸ Moses said, "Since it will be God who gives you meat for your meal in the evening and your fill of bread in the morning, it's God who will have listened to your complaints against him. Who are we in all this? You haven't been complaining to us—you've been complaining to God !" ⁹ Moses instructed Aaron: "Tell the whole company of Israel: ‘Come near to God . He's heard your complaints.'" ¹⁰ When Aaron gave out the instructions to the whole company of Israel, they turned to face the wilderness. And there it was: the Glory of God visible in the Cloud. ¹¹ God spoke to Moses, "I've listened to the complaints of the Israelites. Now tell them: ‘At dusk you will eat meat and at dawn you'll eat your fill of bread; and you'll realize that I am God , your God.'"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 15:24, Genesis 19:4, Psalms 106:7, Psalms 106:13, Psalms 106:25, 1 Corinthians 10:10

Reciprocal: Exodus 13:17 - return Exodus 14:11 - Because Exodus 16:7 - what are we Exodus 16:9 - heard Exodus 17:2 - the people Exodus 32:22 - knowest Numbers 11:1 - And when Numbers 14:2 - murmured Numbers 20:2 - gathered Numbers 20:3 - God Numbers 21:5 - spake Deuteronomy 8:3 - fed thee Deuteronomy 9:7 - from the day Psalms 78:18 - by asking meat Acts 13:18 - about

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
The Man said, "The Woman you gave me as a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree, and, yes, I ate it." God said to the Woman, "What is this that you've done?"

Genesis 3:17
He told the Man: "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree That I commanded you not to eat from, ‘Don't eat from this tree,' The very ground is cursed because of you; getting food from the ground Will be as painful as having babies is for your wife; you'll be working in pain all your life long. The ground will sprout thorns and weeds, you'll get your food the hard way, Planting and tilling and harvesting, sweating in the fields from dawn to dusk, Until you return to that ground yourself, dead and buried; you started out as dirt, you'll end up dirt."

Genesis 16:1
Sarai, Abram's wife, hadn't yet produced a child. She had an Egyptian maid named Hagar. Sarai said to Abram, " God has not seen fit to let me have a child. Sleep with my maid. Maybe I can get a family from her." Abram agreed to do what Sarai said.

Genesis 16:6
"You decide," said Abram. "Your maid is your business." Sarai was abusive to Hagar and Hagar ran away.

Genesis 16:9
The angel of God said, "Go back to your mistress. Put up with her abuse." He continued, "I'm going to give you a big family, children past counting. From this pregnancy, you'll get a son: Name him Ishmael; for God heard you, God answered you. He'll be a bucking bronco of a man, a real fighter, fighting and being fought, Always stirring up trouble, always at odds with his family."

Genesis 18:10
One of them said, "I'm coming back about this time next year. When I arrive, your wife Sarah will have a son." Sarah was listening at the tent opening, just behind the man.

Genesis 25:21
Isaac prayed hard to God for his wife because she was barren. God answered his prayer and Rebekah became pregnant. But the children tumbled and kicked inside her so much that she said, "If this is the way it's going to be, why go on living?" She went to God to find out what was going on. God told her, Two nations are in your womb, two peoples butting heads while still in your body. One people will overpower the other, and the older will serve the younger.

Genesis 30:6
Rachel said, "God took my side and vindicated me. He listened to me and gave me a son." She named him Dan (Vindication). Rachel's maid Bilhah became pregnant again and gave Jacob a second son. Rachel said, "I've been in an all-out fight with my sister—and I've won." So she named him Naphtali (Fight).

Genesis 30:22
And then God remembered Rachel. God listened to her and opened her womb. She became pregnant and had a son. She said, "God has taken away my humiliation." She named him Joseph (Add), praying, "May God add yet another son to me."

Ruth 4:11
All the people in the town square that day, backing up the elders, said, "Yes, we are witnesses. May God make this woman who is coming into your household like Rachel and Leah, the two women who built the family of Israel. May God make you a pillar in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem! With the children God gives you from this young woman, may your family rival the family of Perez, the son Tamar bore to Judah."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured,.... For want of bread; for the Targum of Jonathan says, that day the dough ceased they brought of Egypt, on which, and the unleavened cakes they had lived thirty days; and for a longer space of time it was not sufficient, as Josephus g and other Jewish writers h observe; and now it was all spent, and they were in the utmost distress for bread, and fall a murmuring as they were used to do, when in any distress, even the whole congregation of them, at least the far greater part; some few might be excepted, as Caleb and Joshua, and some others: and they

murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness; in the wilderness of Sin, where they were, and where no corn was to be had to make bread of; and their murmuring was not only against Moses, as before when they wanted water, but against Aaron also, who were jointly concerned in bringing them out of Egypt. It is a common case, when things do not go so well as to be wished for in church or state, for people to murmur against their governors, ecclesiastic or civil, and lay all the blame to them.

g Antiqu. l. 2. c. 15. sect. 1. h Seder Olam Rabba, c. 5. p. 17.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Murmured - The want of food was first felt after six weeks from the time of the departure from Egypt, see Exodus 16:1 : we have no notice previously of any deficiency of bread.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 16:2. The whole congregation - murmured — This is an additional proof of the degraded state of the minds of this people; Exodus 13:17. And this very circumstance affords a convincing argument that a people so stupidly carnal could not have been induced to leave Egypt had they not been persuaded so to do by the most evident and striking miracles. Human nature can never be reduced to a more abject state in this world than that in which the body is enthralled by political slavery, and the soul debased by the influence of sin. These poor Hebrews were both slaves and sinners, and were therefore capable of the meanest and most disgraceful acts.