Numbers 16:34 “At their cries, all the people of Israel who were around them fled, sa…”

Numbers 16:34

At their cries, all the people of Israel who were around them fled, saying, “The earth may swallow us too!”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.

World English Bible

All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”

American Standard Version

And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.

Geneva Bible 1599

And all Israel that were about them, fled at the crie of them: for they said, Let vs flee, least the earth swalow vs vp.

Darby Translation

And all Israel that were round about them fled at their cry; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up!

Young's Literal Translation

and all Israel who [are] round about them have fled at their voice, for they said, 'Lest the earth swallow us;'

Bible in Basic English

And all Israel round about them went in flight at their cry, For fear, said they, that we go down into the heart of the earth.

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Cross references

“fled”

Isaiah 33:3 Zechariah 14:5 Revelation 6:15–17

Isaiah 33:3 · BSB

The peoples flee the thunder of Your voice; the nations scatter when You rise.

Zechariah 14:5 · BSB

You will flee by My mountain valley, for it will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with Him.

Revelation 6:15–17 · BSB

Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

“Lest”

Numbers 17:12 Numbers 17:13

Numbers 17:12 · BSB

Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we are perishing! We are lost; we are all lost!

Numbers 17:13 · BSB

Anyone who comes near the tabernacle of the LORD will die. Are we all going to perish?”

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

In context

33They went down alive into Sheol with all they owned. The earth closed over them, and they vanished from the assembly.

35And fire came forth from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.

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