Exodus 16:2

The Darby Translation

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

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.

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

¹ And they journeyed from Elim, and the whole assembly of the children of Israel came into the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departure out of the land of Egypt. ² And the whole assembly of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness. ³ And the children of Israel said to them, Would that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we ate bread to the full; for ye have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole congregation with hunger! ⁴ Then said Jehovah to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather the daily need on its day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or not. ⁵ And it shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare what they have brought in; and it shall be twice as much as they shall gather daily. ⁶ And Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, In the evening, then shall ye know that Jehovah has brought you out from the land of Egypt; ⁷ and in the morning, then shall ye see the glory of Jehovah; for he has heard your murmurings against Jehovah;—and what are we, that ye murmur against us? ⁸ And Moses said, When Jehovah gives you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for Jehovah hears your murmurings which ye murmur against him … and what [are] we? your murmurings are not against us, but against Jehovah. ⁹ And Moses spoke to Aaron, Say to all the assembly of the children of Israel, Come near into the presence of Jehovah; for he has heard your murmurings. ¹⁰ And it came to pass, when Aaron spoke to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, that they turned toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of Jehovah appeared in the cloud.

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
And Man said, The woman, whom thou hast given [to be] with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.

Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with toil shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life;

Genesis 16:1
And Sarai Abram's wife did not bear him [children]. And she had an Egyptian maidservant; and her name was Hagar.

Genesis 16:2
And Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, Jehovah has shut me up, that I do not bear. Go in, I pray thee, to my maidservant: it may be that I shall be built up by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

Genesis 16:4
And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was lightly esteemed in her eyes.

Genesis 16:6
And Abram said to Sarai, Behold, thy maidservant is in thy hand: do to her what is good in thine eyes. And Sarai oppressed her; and she fled from her face.

Genesis 16:9
And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

Genesis 16:10
And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

Genesis 17:16
And I will bless her, and I will give thee a son also of her; and I will bless her, and she shall become nations: kings of peoples shall be of her.

Genesis 18:10
And he said, I will certainly return to thee at [this] time of the year, and behold, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah was listening at the tent-door, which was behind him.

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.