Numbers 14:4

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

And they say to one another, “Let us appoint a head and return to Egypt.”

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

And they said one to another, Let vs make a Captaine and returne into Egypt.

JPS

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

LXXE

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

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Original-language editions

WLC

וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ אִ֣ישׁ אֶל־אָחִ֑יו נִתְּנָ֥ה רֹ֖אשׁ וְנָשׁ֥וּבָה מִצְרָֽיְמָה׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ εἶπαν ἕτερος τῷ ἑτέρῳ, δῶμεν ἀρχηγὸν, καὶ ἀποστρέψωμεν εἰς Αἴγυπτον.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Acts 7:39But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.
• Nehemiah 9:16–17But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments. They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed…
• 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.’
• Luke 17:32Remember Lot’s wife!
• 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.”
• Hebrews 11:15If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.
• 2 Peter 2:21–22It 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. Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to…
• Hebrews 10:38–39But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.” But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

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