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 14:4 - New Revised Standard Version So they said to one another, “Let us choose a captain, and go back 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.” Catholic Public Domain Version And they said to one another, "Let us appoint our leader, and so return 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. |
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,’
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?’ ”
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the Israelites.
Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him; instead, they pushed him aside, and in their hearts they turned back to Egypt,
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.”
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.
If they had been thinking of the land that they had left behind, they would have had opportunity to return.