Numbers 14:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So they said to one another, “Let us choose a captain and go back to Egypt.”

Cross References

Jeremiah 42:14

and saying, ‘No, we will go to the land of Egypt, where we shall not see war or hear the sound of the trumpet or be hungry for bread, and there we will stay,’

Numbers 11:20

but for a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you—because you have rejected the Lord who is among you and have wailed before him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?” ’ ”

Numbers 14:5

Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the Israelites.

Luke 17:32

Remember Lot’s wife.

Acts 7:39

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

Deuteronomy 17:16

Even so, he must not acquire many horses for himself or return the people to Egypt in order to acquire more horses, since the Lord has said to you, ‘You must never return that way again.’

Deuteronomy 28:68

The Lord will bring you back in ships to Egypt, by a route that I promised you would never see again, and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”

Hebrews 11:15

If they had been thinking of the land that they had left behind, they would have had opportunity to return.