Numbers 20:4-5

20:4 Why ¹  have you brought up the Lord’s community into this wilderness? So that ²  we and our cattle should die here? 20:5 Why ³  have you brought us up from Egypt only to bring us to ⁴  this dreadful place? It is no place for grain, or figs, or vines, or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink!”

[20:4]  ¹ tn Heb “and why….” The conjunction seems to be recording another thing that the people said in their complaint against Moses.

[20:4]  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?”

[20:5]  ³ tn Heb “and why.”

[20:5]  ⁴ tn Here also the infinitive construct (Hiphil) forms the subordinate clause of the preceding interrogative clause.