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 we will dwell there,’
Numbers 14:4 - Revised Standard Version And 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 we will dwell there,’
but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have rejected the Lord who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come forth out of Egypt?” ’ ”
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the people of Israel.
Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and in their hearts they turned to Egypt,
Only he must not multiply horses for himself, or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to multiply horses, since the Lord has said to you, ‘You shall never return that way again.’
And the Lord will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey which I promised that you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no man will buy you.”
If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return.