Numbers 14:3

New American Bible - revised edition

Why is the Lord bringing us into this land only to have us fall by the sword? Our wives and little ones will be taken as spoil. Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:17

They refused to obey and no longer remembered the wonders you had worked for them. They were obdurate and appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a forgiving God, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and rich in mercy; you did not forsake them.

Psalm 78:40

How often they rebelled against God in the wilderness, grieved him in the wasteland.

Exodus 16:3

The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died at the Lord’s hand in the land of Egypt, as we sat by our kettles of meat and ate our fill of bread! But you have led us into this wilderness to make this whole assembly die of famine!” The Quail and the Manna.

Exodus 5:21

and said to them, “The Lord look upon you and judge! You have made us offensive to Pharaoh and his servants, putting a sword into their hands to kill us.” Renewal of God’s Promise.

Jeremiah 42:14

and saying, “No, we will go to the land of Egypt, where we will not see war, nor hear the trumpet alarm, nor hunger for bread. There we will live!”

Jeremiah 42:19

The Lord has spoken to you, remnant of Judah. Do not go to Egypt! Mark well that I am warning you this day.

Jeremiah 9:3

Be on your guard, everyone against his neighbor; put no trust in any brother. Every brother imitates Jacob, the supplanter, every neighbor is guilty of slander.

Numbers 11:20

but for a whole month—until it comes out of your very nostrils and becomes loathsome to you. For you have rejected the Lord who is in your midst, and in his presence you have cried, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”

Numbers 16:13

Are you not satisfied that you have brought us here from a land flowing with milk and honey to have us perish in the wilderness, that now you must also lord it over us?

Numbers 20:3

The people quarreled with Moses, exclaiming, “Would that we had perished when our kindred perished before the Lord!

Numbers 21:5

so the people complained against God and Moses, “Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness, where there is no food or water? We are disgusted with this wretched food!”

Acts 7:39

“Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him; instead, they pushed him aside and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

Deuteronomy 1:39

Your little ones, who you said would become plunder, and your children, who as yet do not know good from evil—they shall enter there; to them I will give it, and they shall take possession of it.