Numbers 16:34 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³⁴ And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: 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."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁴ But all Israel, that was standing round about, fled at the cry of them that were perishing; saying: Lest perhaps the earth swallow us up also.

Numbers 16:34 Cross References

Isaiah 33:3

At the noise of the tumult the peoples are fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations are scattered.

Zechariah 14:5

And ye shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azel: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the holy ones with thee.

Numbers 16:33

So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit: and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly.

Numbers 16:35

And fire came forth from the LORD, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.