Numbers 14:4
Good News Translation
So they said to one another, "Let's choose a leader and go back to Egypt!"

New Revised Standard Version
So they said to one another, “Let us choose a captain, and go back to Egypt.”

Contemporary English Version
Then they said to one another, "Let's choose our own leader and go back."

New American Bible
So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and go back to Egypt.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they said one to another: Let us appoint a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Deuteronomy 17:16 And when he is made king, he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor lead back the people into Egypt, being lifted up with the number of his horsemen, especially since the Lord hath commanded you to return no more the same way.

Deuteronomy 28:68 The Lord shall bring thee again with ships into Egypt, by the way whereof he said to thee that thou shouldst see it no more. There shalt thou be set to sale to thy enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

Nehemiah 9:16,17 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks and hearkened not to thy commandments. . . .

Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.

Acts 7:39 Whom our fathers would not obey: but thrust him away and in their hearts turned back into Egypt,

Hebrews 10:38,39 But my just man liveth by faith: but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please my soul. . . .

Hebrews 11:15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that from whence they came out, they had doubtless, time to return.

2 Peter 2:21,22 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of justice than, after they have known it, to turn back from that holy commandment which was delivered to them. . . .

Context
The People Rebel
3Would God that we had died in Egypt: and would God we may die in this vast wilderness, and that the Lord may not bring us into this land, lest we fall by the sword, and our wives and children be led away captives. Is it not better to return into Egypt? 4And they said one to another: Let us appoint a captain, and let us return into Egypt.5And when Moses and Aaron heard this, they fell down flat upon the ground before the multitude of the children of Israel.…
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:17
And they would not hear, and they remembered not thy wonders which thou hadst done for them. And they hardened their necks, and gave the head to return to their bondage, as it were by contention. But thou, a forgiving God, gracious, and merciful, longsuffering, and full of compassion, didst not forsake them.

Numbers 14:5
And when Moses and Aaron heard this, they fell down flat upon the ground before the multitude of the children of Israel.

Numbers 14:3
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