Exodus 16:2

Literal Standard Version

And all the congregation of the sons of Israel murmur 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.

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

¹And they journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the sons of Israel come to the wilderness of Sin, which [is] between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month of their going out from the land of Egypt. ²And all the congregation of the sons of Israel murmur against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;³and the sons of Israel say to them, "Oh that we had died by the hand of YHWH in the land of Egypt, in our sitting by the flesh-pot, in our eating bread to satiety—for you have brought us out to this wilderness to put all this assembly to death with hunger." ⁴And YHWH says to Moses, "Behold, I am raining bread from the heavens for you—and the people have gone out and gathered the matter of a day in its day—so that I try them whether they walk in My law or not; ⁵and it has been on the sixth day, that they have prepared that which they bring in, and it has been double above that which they gather day [by] day." ⁶And Moses says—Aaron also—to all the sons of Israel, "Evening—and you have known that YHWH has brought you out from the land of Egypt; ⁷and morning—and you have seen the glory of YHWH, in His hearing your murmurings against YHWH, and what [are] we, that you murmur against us?" ⁸And Moses says, "In YHWH's giving to you flesh to eat in the evening, and bread in the morning to satiety—in YHWH's hearing your murmurings, which you are murmuring against Him, and what [are] we? Your murmurings [are] not against us, but against YHWH." ⁹And Moses says to Aaron, "Say to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, Come near before YHWH, for He has heard your murmurings"; ¹⁰and it comes to pass, when Aaron is speaking to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, that they turn toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of YHWH is seen 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 the man says, "The woman whom You placed with me—she has given to me from the tree, and I eat."

Genesis 3:17
And to the man He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and eat from the tree concerning which I have charged you, saying, You do not eat of it, cursed [is] the ground on your account; in sorrow you eat of it [for] all days of your life,

Genesis 16:1
And Sarai, Abram's wife, has not borne to him, and she has a handmaid, an Egyptian, and her name [is] Hagar;

Genesis 16:2
and Sarai says to Abram, "Now behold, YHWH has restrained me from bearing, please go in to my handmaid; perhaps I am built up from her"; and Abram listens to the voice of Sarai.

Genesis 16:4
and he goes in to Hagar, and she conceives, and she sees that she has conceived, and her mistress is lightly esteemed in her eyes.

Genesis 16:6
And Abram says to Sarai, "Behold, your handmaid [is] in your hand, do to her that which is good in your eyes"; and Sarai afflicted her, and she flees from her presence.

Genesis 16:9
And the Messenger of YHWH says to her, "Return to your mistress, and humble yourself under her hands";

Genesis 16:10
and the Messenger of YHWH says to her, "Multiplying I multiply your seed, and it is not numbered from multitude";

Genesis 17:16
and I have blessed her, and have also given to you a son from her; and I have blessed her, and she has become nations—kings of peoples are from her."

Genesis 18:10
and He says, "Returning I return to you, about the time of life, and behold, to Sarah your wife a son." And Sarah is listening at the opening of the tent, which is 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.