SinaiNumbers 14:3
American Standard Version
And wherefore doth Jehovah bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
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Numbers 14:3 in other translations
Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”
Numbers 14:3 in context
- 1And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
- 2And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!
- 3And wherefore doth Jehovah bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
- 4And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
- 5Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.