Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent did he bring them forth, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
Numbers 14:15 - Revised Standard Version Now if thou dost kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard thy fame 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, ‘With evil intent did he bring them forth, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
‘Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to give to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.’
And the Lord said to him, “But I will be with you, and you shall smite the Midianites as one man.”