Numbers 14:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And they said to one another, Let us make a captain over us, and go back to Egypt.

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  • Deut 17:16 : 16 And he is not to get together a great army of horses for himself, or make the people go back to Egypt to get horses for him: because the Lord has said, You will never again go back that way.
  • Acts 7:39 : 39 By whom our fathers would not be controlled; but they put him on one side, turning back in their hearts to Egypt,
  • Heb 10:38-39 : 38 But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not of those who go back to destruction; but of those who have faith even to the salvation of the soul.
  • Heb 11:15 : 15 And truly if they had kept in mind the country from which they went out, they would have had chances of turning back.
  • 2 Pet 2:21-22 : 21 For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it. 22 They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.
  • Deut 28:68 : 68 And the Lord will take you back to Egypt again in ships, by the way of which I said to you, You will never see it again: there you will be offering yourselves as men-servants and women-servants to your haters for a price, and no man will take you.
  • Neh 9:16-17 : 16 But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders, 17 And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.
  • Luke 17:32 : 32 Keep in mind Lot's wife.

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  • Num 14:1-3
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    82%

    1 Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that night they gave themselves up to weeping.

    2 And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land!

    3 Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?

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    10 And when Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel, lifting up their eyes, saw the Egyptians coming after them, and were full of fear; and their cry went up to God.

    11 And they said to Moses, Was there no resting-place for the dead in Egypt, that you have taken us away to come to our death in the waste land? why have you taken us out of Egypt?

    12 Did we not say to you in Egypt, Let us be as we are, working for the Egyptians? for it is better to be the servants of the Egyptians than to come to our death in the waste land.

  • 5 Then Moses and Aaron went down on their faces before the meeting of the people.

  • Acts 7:39-40
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    75%

    39 By whom our fathers would not be controlled; but they put him on one side, turning back in their hearts to Egypt,

    40 And saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him.

  • 5 And word came to Pharaoh of the flight of the people: and the feeling of Pharaoh and of his servants about the people was changed, and they said, Why have we let Israel go, so that they will do no more work for us?

  • Jer 42:13-14
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    13 But if you say, We have no desire to go on living in this land; and do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God,

    14 Saying, No, but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will not see war, or be hearing the sound of the horn, or be in need of food; there we will make our living-place;

  • Num 20:3-4
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    3 And the people were angry with Moses and said, If only death had overtaken us when our brothers came to their death before the Lord!

    4 Why have you taken the Lord's people into this waste, for death to come to us and to our cattle there?

  • 1 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • 3 And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord to have put us to death in the land of Egypt, where we were seated by the flesh-pots and had bread enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to this waste of sand, to put all this people to death through need of food.

  • 21 And they said to them, May the Lord take note of you and be your judge; for you have given Pharaoh and his servants a bad opinion of us, putting a sword in their hands for our destruction.

  • 15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we were living in Egypt for a long time; and the Egyptians were cruel to us and to our fathers:

  • 23 For they said to me, Make us a god to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us up out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has come to him.

  • 26 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

  • 27 And you made an angry outcry in your tents, and said, In his hate for us the Lord has taken us out of the land of Egypt, to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction.

  • 13 And Moses said to the Lord, Then it will come to the ears of the Egyptians; for by your power you took this people out from among them;

  • Num 14:39-41
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    39 And when Moses put these words before the children of Israel, the people were full of grief.

    40 And early in the morning they got up and went to the top of the mountain, saying, We are here and we will go up to the place which the Lord said he would give us: for we have done wrong.

    41 And Moses said, Why are you now acting against the Lord's order, seeing that no good will come of it?

  • 13 Is it not enough that you have taken us from a land flowing with milk and honey, to put us to death in the waste land, but now you are desiring to make yourself a chief over us?

  • Exod 5:3-4
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    3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God, so that he may not send death on us by disease or the sword.

    4 And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people away from their work? get back to your work.

  • 27 But we will go three days' journey into the waste land and make an offering to the Lord our God as he may give us orders.

  • 3 And the people were in great need of water; and they made an outcry against Moses, and said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to send death on us and our children and our cattle through need of water?

  • Exod 4:18-19
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    18 And Moses went back to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him, Let me go back now to my relations in Egypt and see if they are still living. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

    19 And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, Go back to Egypt, for all the men are dead who were attempting to take your life.

  • 14 And you made answer and said to me, It is good for us to do as you say.

  • 15 And the Lord said to Moses, Why are you crying out to me? give the children of Israel the order to go forward.

  • 5 And crying out against God and against Moses, they said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to come to our death in the waste land? For there is no bread and no water, and this poor bread is disgusting to us.

  • 22 And you came near to me, every one of you, and said, Let us send men before us to go through the land with care and give us an account of the way we are to go and the towns to which we will come.

  • 29 Then Moses and Aaron went and got together all the chiefs of the children of Israel:

  • 25 And made the wheels of their war-carriages stiff, so that they had hard work driving them: so the Egyptians said, Let us go in flight from before the face of Israel, for the Lord is fighting for them against the Egyptians.

  • 17 Now after Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not take them through the land of the Philistines, though that was near: for God said, If the people see war, they may have a change of heart and go back to Egypt.

  • 41 Then you said to me, We have done evil against the Lord, we will go up to the attack, as the Lord our God has given us orders. And arming yourselves every one, you made ready to go up without care into the hill-country.