“how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Numbers 20 contains 29 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.