Numbers 14:4 “So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Eg…”

Numbers 14:4

So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

World English Bible

They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”

American Standard Version

And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

Geneva Bible 1599

And they said one to another, Let vs make a Captaine and returne into Egypt.

Darby Translation

And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return to Egypt.

Young's Literal Translation

And they say one unto another, 'Let us appoint a head, and turn back to Egypt.'

Bible in Basic English

And they said to one another, Let us make a captain over us, and go back to Egypt.

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Cross references

“And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.”

Acts 7:39 Deuteronomy 17:16 Luke 17:32 Deuteronomy 28:68 Hebrews 11:15 Nehemiah 9:16

Acts 7:39 · BSB

But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

Deuteronomy 17:16 · BSB

But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, ‘You are never to go back that way again.’

Luke 17:32 · BSB

Remember Lot’s wife!

Deuteronomy 28:68 · BSB

The LORD will return you to Egypt in ships by a route that I said you should never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

Hebrews 11:15 · BSB

If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.

Nehemiah 9:16 · BSB

But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3Why 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?”

5Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown before the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel.

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