Numbers 14:4

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“So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.””

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BSBPD

“So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And they say one unto another, `Let us appoint a head, and turn back to Egypt.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Numbers 14:4 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Numbers 11:20but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and makes you nauseous—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have cried out before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”
  2. Deuteronomy 17:16But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, ‘You are never to go back that way again.’
  3. Deuteronomy 28:68The LORD will return you to Egypt in ships by a route that I said you should never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
  4. Nehemiah 9:16But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.
  5. Nehemiah 9:17They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loving devotion, and You did not forsake them.
  6. Jeremiah 42:14and if you say, ‘No, but we will go to the land of Egypt and live there, where we will not see war or hear the sound of the ram’s horn or hunger for bread,’
  7. Luke 17:32Remember Lot’s wife!
  8. Acts 7:39But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.
  9. Hebrews 10:38But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”
  10. Hebrews 11:15If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.
  11. 2 Peter 2:21It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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