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Numbers 14:4

Egypt
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2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!

3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

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

5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:

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BSB
So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”
KJV
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
WEB
They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”
ASV
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
DARBY
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return to Egypt.
BLB
And they said a man to his brother, “Let us set a leader and return to Egypt.”
ÅB
Og de sa til hverandre: La oss velge oss en høvding og vende tilbake til Egypt!
OTB
Og de sa til hverandre: “La oss utnevne en leder og dra tilbake til Egypt.”
B1930
Og de sa til hverandre: La oss velge oss en høvding og vende tilbake til Egypten!

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Acts 7:39

    To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

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  • Nehemiah 9:16–17

    But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

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  • Luke 17:32

    Remember Lot’s wife.

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  • Deuteronomy 17:16

    But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.

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  • Deuteronomy 28:68

    And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

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  • Hebrews 11:15

    And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

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  • 2 Peter 2:21–22

    For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

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  • Hebrews 10:38–39

    Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

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