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Moses: People Complain Against Moses and Aaron Exodus 5:20, 21

When they left Pharaoh, they confronted Moses and Aaron, who stood waiting to meet them. / “May the LORD look upon you and judge you,” the foremen said, “for you have made us a stench before Pharaoh and his officials; you have placed in their hand a sword to kill us!”

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Moses: People Complain Against Moses and Aaron Exodus 15:24

So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”

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Moses: People Complain Against Moses and Aaron Exodus 16:2, 3

And there in the desert they all grumbled against Moses and Aaron. / “If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”

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Moses: People Complain Against Moses and Aaron Exodus 17:2, 3

So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?” / But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”

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Moses: People Complain Against Moses and Aaron Numbers 14:2–4

All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness! / Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?” / So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”

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Moses: People Complain Against Moses and Aaron Numbers 16:41

The next day the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the LORD’s people!”

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Moses: People Complain Against Moses and Aaron Numbers 20:2–5

Now there was no water for the congregation, so they gathered against Moses and Aaron. / The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD! / Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?

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Moses: People Complain Against Moses and Aaron Numbers 21:4–6

Then they set out from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, in order to bypass the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient on the journey / and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!” / So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.

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Moses: People Complain Against Moses and Aaron Deuteronomy 1:12, 26–28

But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes all by myself? / But you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. / Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”

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