Numbers 14:4

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Numbers 14:4

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Berean Standard Bible

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

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KJV

King James Version

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

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WEB

World English Bible

They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”

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ASV

American Standard Version

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

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Numbers 14

² All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!

³ Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”

⁴ So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”

⁵ Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown before the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel.

⁶ Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes

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