Exode 17:3

La Bible Ostervald

Le peuple eut donc soif dans ce lieu, faute d'eau; et le peuple murmura contre Moïse, et dit: Pourquoi donc nous as-tu fait monter hors d'Égypte, pour nous faire mourir de soif, moi et mes enfants, et mes troupeaux?

Parallel Translations

Louis Segond (1910)
Le peuple �tait l�, press� par la soif, et murmurait contre Mo�se. Il disait: Pourquoi nous as-tu fait monter hors d'Egypte, pour me faire mourir de soif avec mes enfants et mes troupeaux?

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Le peuple donc eut soif en ce lieu-l�, par faute d'eau; et ainsi le peuple murmura contre Mo�se, en disant : pourquoi nous as-tu fait monter hors d'Egypte, pour nous faire mourir de soif, nous, et nos enfants, et nos troupeaux?

Darby's French Translation
Et l�, le peuple eut soif d'eau; et le peuple murmura contre Mo�se, et dit: Pourquoi nous as-tu fait monter d'�gypte, pour nous faire mourir de soif, moi, et mes enfants, et mon b�tail?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thou hast: Exodus 16:3

Reciprocal: Exodus 14:11 - Because Exodus 15:24 - General Exodus 33:1 - thou hast Numbers 11:1 - And when Numbers 14:2 - murmured Numbers 16:13 - to kill Numbers 20:4 - why Numbers 21:5 - spake Joshua 7:7 - to deliver 2 Samuel 14:32 - it had been Psalms 63:1 - General Proverbs 25:25 - cold Isaiah 41:17 - seek Jeremiah 42:14 - nor hear Jeremiah 48:18 - and sit Hosea 2:3 - and slay Acts 7:39 - and in 1 Corinthians 10:10 - murmur

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the people thirsted there for water,.... They saw there was no water when they first came thither, and therefore chid Moses for bringing them to such a place, where they could not subsist; and having stayed some little time here, and all the water they brought with them from Alush being spent, and having none to drink, began to be very thirsty:

and the people murmured against Moses; became more impatient and enraged, and threw out their invectives against him with much acrimony and severity:

wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt? where it would have been much better for us to have continued:

to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst: which is intolerable to any, and especially to children and cattle, which require frequent drinking: they could not suppose that Moses had such a murderous view in bringing them out of Egypt, or that this was his intention in it, but that this would be the issue and event of it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 17:3. And the people murmured — The reader must not forget what has so often been noted relating to the degraded state of the minds of the Israelites. A strong argument however may be drawn from this in favour of their supernatural escape from Egypt. Had it been a scheme concerted by the heads of the people, provision would necessarily have been made for such exigencies as these. But as God chose to keep them constantly dependent upon himself for every necessary of life, and as they had Moses alone as their mediator to look to, they murmured against him when brought into straits and difficulties, regretted their having left Egypt, and expressed the strongest desire to return. This shows that they had left Egypt reluctantly; and as Moses and Aaron never appear to have any resources but those which came most evidently in a supernatural way, therefore the whole exodus or departure from Egypt proves itself to have been no human contrivance, but a measure concerted by God himself.