Numeri 20:5

La Bibbia di Giovanni Diodati

E perchè ci avete tratti fuor di Egitto, per menarci in questo cattivo luogo, che non è luogo di sementa, nè di fichi, nè di vigne, nè di melagrane, e non vi è pure acqua da bere?

Parallel Translations

Riveduta Bibbia
E perché ci avete fatti salire dall’Egitto per menarci in questo tristo luogo? Non è un luogo dove sì possa seminare; non ci son fichi, non vigne, non melagrane, e non c’è acqua da bere".

La Nuova Diodati
E perch ci avete fatti salire dallEgitto per condurci in questo brutto luogo? Non un luogo di grano o di fichi o di vigne o di melograni, e non c acqua da bere".

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

this evil: Numbers 16:14, Deuteronomy 8:15, Nehemiah 9:21, Jeremiah 2:2, Jeremiah 2:6, Ezekiel 20:36

no place of: i.e. "no place for sowing

Reciprocal: Joshua 7:7 - to deliver

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt,.... They represent that affair in such a light, as if they were forced out of Egypt by Moses and Aaron against their wills; or at least were overpersuaded by them to do what they had no inclination to, namely, to come out of Egypt; though they were in the utmost bondage and slavery, and their lives were made bitter by it, and they cried by reason of their oppression, and the hardships they endured; but this was all forgot. Aben Ezra says, it is a strange word which is here used, which shows the confusion they were in:

to bring us unto this evil place; dry and barren, where there were neither food nor drink, as follows:

it is no place of seed; or fit for sowing, as the Targum of Jonathan, any sort of seed, as wheat, barley, rye, rice, c.

or of figs, or vines, or pomegranates it is not a soil fit to plant such trees in, nor would they grow were they planted:

neither is there any water to drink; for them and their cattle, and therefore must be a miserable place for so large a body of people to subsist in.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The language of the murmurers is noteworthy. It has the air of a traditional remonstrance handed down from the last generation. Compare marginal references.