Numbers 16:34 - Revised Standard Version

³⁴ And all Israel that were round about them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁴ And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁴ And all Israel who were round about them fled at their cry, for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁴ And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.

Common English Bible

³⁴ All the Israelites who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, “The earth may swallow us.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁴ Yet truly, all of Israel, which was standing all around, took flight at the clamor of those who were perishing, saying, "Lest perhaps the earth may swallow us whole also."

Numbers 16:34 Cross References

Zechariah 14:5

And the valley of my mountains shall be stopped up, for the valley of the mountains shall touch the side of it; and you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord your God will come, and all the holy ones with him.

Isaiah 33:3

At the thunderous noise peoples flee, at the lifting up of thyself nations are scattered;

Numbers 16:33

So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol; and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.

Numbers 16:35

And fire came forth from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men offering the incense.