Numbers 14:4 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴ And they said to each other, “Let us appoint a leader, and let us turn back to Mitsrayim.”

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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."

Numbers 14:4 Cross References

Jeremiah 42:14

saying, ‘No, but we are going to the land of Mitsrayim so that we see no fighting, nor hear the sound of the ram’s horn, nor hunger for bread, and there we shall stay,’

Numbers 11:20

but for a month of days, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes an abomination to you, because you have rejected יהוה  who is among you, and have wept before Him, saying, “Why did we come up out of Mitsrayim?” ’ ”

Numbers 14:5

Then Mosheh and Aharon fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕ

Luke 17:32

“Remember the wife of Lot.

Acts 7:39

unto whom our fathers would not become obedient, but thrust away, and in their hearts they turned back to Mits-rayim,

Deuteronomy 17:16

“Only, he is not to increase horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Mitsrayim to increase horses, for יהוה  has said to you, ‘Do not return that way again.’

Deuteronomy 28:68

“And יהוה  shall bring you back to Mitsrayim in ships, by a way of which I said to you, ‘You are never to see it again.’ And there you shall be sold to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one to buy.”

Hebrews 11:15

And yet, if they had indeed kept remembering that place from which they had come out, they would have had the chance to return.