Numbers 14:4

New International Reader's Version

They said to one another, “We should choose another leader. We should go back to Egypt.”

Cross References

Jeremiah 42:14

And suppose you say, ‘No! We’ll go and live in Egypt. There we won’t have to face war anymore. We won’t hear the trumpets of war. And we won’t get hungry.’

Numbers 11:20

Instead, you will eat it for a whole month. You will eat it until it comes out of your noses. You will eat it until you hate it. The Lord is among you. But you have turned your back on him. You have cried out while he was listening. You have said, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?” ’ ”

Numbers 14:5

Then Moses and Aaron fell with their faces to the ground. They did it in front of the whole community of Israel gathered there.

Luke 17:32

Remember Lot’s wife!

Acts 7:39

“But our people refused to obey Moses. They would not accept him. In their hearts, they wished they were back in Egypt.

Deuteronomy 17:16

The king must not get large numbers of horses for himself. He must not make the people return to Egypt to get more horses. The Lord has told you, “You must not go back there again.”

Deuteronomy 28:68

The Lord will send you back to Egypt in ships. He’ll send you on a journey I said you should never have to make again. You will offer to sell yourselves to your enemies as slaves in Egypt. But no one will buy you.

Hebrews 11:15

What if they had been thinking of the country they had left? Then they could have returned to it.