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Numbers 14:4

World English Bible

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

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Numbers 14:4 in other translations

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

Numbers 14:4 · American Standard Version

Numbers 14:4 in context

  1. 2All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!
  2. 3Why 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?”
  3. 4They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”
  4. 5Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
  5. 6Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.