saying: 'Never! Instead, we will travel to the land of Egypt, where we will not see war, and we will not hear the blast of the trumpet, and we will not endure famine. And there we shall live.'
Numbers 14:4 - Catholic Public Domain Version And they said to one another, "Let us appoint our leader, and so return to Egypt." Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And they said one to another, Let us choose a captain and return to Egypt. American Standard Version (1901) And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. Common English Bible So they said to each other, “Let’s pick a leader and let’s go back to Egypt.” Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they said one to another: Let us appoint a captain, and let us return into Egypt. English Standard Version 2016 And they said to one another, “Let us choose a leader and go back to Egypt.” |
saying: 'Never! Instead, we will travel to the land of Egypt, where we will not see war, and we will not hear the blast of the trumpet, and we will not endure famine. And there we shall live.'
but for up to a month of days, until it exits from your nostrils, and until it turns into nausea for you, because you have slipped away from the Lord, who is in your midst, and because you have wept before him, saying: 'Why did we go forth out of Egypt?' "
And when Moses and Aaron heard this, they fell prone on the ground in the sight of the multitude of the sons of Israel.
It is he whom our fathers were not willing to obey. Instead, they rejected him, and in their hearts they turned away toward Egypt,
And when he will have been appointed king, he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor lead the people back into Egypt, having been exalted by the number of his horsemen, especially since the Lord has instructed you never to return along the same way.
The Lord will lead you back into Egypt with a fleet of ships, along the way, about which he said to you that you would not see it again. In that place, you will be put up for sale as men and women servants to your enemies, but there will be no one willing to buy you."
And if, indeed, they had been mindful of the very place from which they departed, they certainly would have returned in time.