Numbers 14:4 - Easy To Read Version

⁴ Then the people said to each other, “Let’s choose another leader and go back to Egypt.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ And they said one to another, Let us choose a captain and return to Egypt.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

Common English Bible

⁴ So they said to each other, “Let’s pick a leader and let’s go back to Egypt.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And they said to one another, "Let us appoint our leader, and so return to Egypt."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And they said one to another: Let us appoint a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

Numbers 14:4 Cross References

Jeremiah 42:14

And you might say, ‘No, we will go and live in Egypt. We will not be bothered with war in that place. We will not hear the trumpets of war. And in Egypt we will not be hungry.’

Numbers 11:20

You will eat that meat for a whole month. You will eat the meat until you are sick of it. This will happen to you because you complained against the Lord. The Lord lives among you and knows what you need. But you cried and complained to him! You said, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”

Numbers 14:5

Moses and Aaron bowed low to the ground in front of all the people gathered there.

Luke 17:32

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Acts 7:39

“But our ancestors did not want to obey Moses. They rejected him. They wanted to go back to Egypt again.

Deuteronomy 17:16

The king must not get more and more horses for himself. And he must not send people to Egypt to get more horses. Why? Because the Lord has told you, ‘You must never go back that way.’

Deuteronomy 28:68

The Lord will send you back to Egypt in ships. I said you would never have to go to that place again, but the Lord will send you there. In Egypt, you will try to sell yourselves as slaves to your enemies. But no person will buy you.”

Hebrews 11:15

If those men were thinking about that country they had left, then they could have gone back.