Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce wrath; change your mind and do not bring disaster on your people.
Numbers 14:15 - New Revised Standard Version Now if you kill this people all at one time, then the nations who have heard about you will say, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Now if You kill all this people as one man, then the nations that have heard Your fame will say, American Standard Version (1901) Now if thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, Common English Bible If you kill these people, every last one of them, the nations who heard about you will say, Catholic Public Domain Version may hear that you have killed so great a multitude, as if they were one man, and they may say: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version May hear that thou hast killed so great a multitude as it were one man and may say: |
Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce wrath; change your mind and do not bring disaster on your people.
‘It is because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land he swore to give them that he has slaughtered them in the wilderness.’
The Lord said to him, “But I will be with you, and you shall strike down the Midianites, every one of them.”