Text -- Numbers 20:4 (NET)

20:4 Why have you brought up the Lord’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Num 20:4

¹ tn Heb “and why….” The conjunction seems to be recording another thing that the people said in their complaint against Moses.

² tn The clause uses the infinitive construct with the lamed (ל) preposition. The clause would be a result clause in this sentence: “Why have you brought us here…with the result that we will all die?”