Numbers 14:4

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Deut 17:16 : 16 Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, "You shall not go back that way again."
  • Acts 7:39 : 39 to whom our fathers wouldn't be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
  • Heb 10:38-39 : 38 But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him." 39 But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
  • Heb 11:15 : 15 If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.
  • 2 Pet 2:21-22 : 21 For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire."
  • Deut 28:68 : 68 Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said to you, You shall see it no more again: and there you shall sell yourselves to your enemies for bondservants and for bondmaids, and no man shall buy you.
  • Neh 9:16-17 : 16 "But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, didn't listen to your commandments, 17 and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn't forsake them.
  • Luke 17:32 : 32 Remember Lot's wife!

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  • Num 14:1-3
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    1All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

    2All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!

    3Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?"

  • Exod 14:10-12
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    10When Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.

    11They said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us forth out of Egypt?

    12Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness."

  • Num 14:5
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    5Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

  • Acts 7:39-40
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    39to whom our fathers wouldn't be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

    40saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.'

  • Exod 14:5
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    5It was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?"

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    13But if you say, We will not dwell in this land; so that you don't obey the voice of Yahweh your God,

    14saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:

  • Num 20:3-4
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    3The people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, "We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!

    4Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?

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    1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 16:3
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    3and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

  • Exod 5:21
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    21and they said to them, "May Yahweh look at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us."

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    15how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:

  • Exod 32:23
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    23For they said to me, 'Make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.'

  • Num 14:26
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    26Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

  • Deut 1:27
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    27and you murmured in your tents, and said, "Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

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    13Moses said to Yahweh, "Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them;

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    39Moses told these words to all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

    40They rose up early in the morning, and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, "Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which Yahweh has promised: for we have sinned."

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    13is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us?

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    3They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword."

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    27We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh our God, as he shall command us."

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    3The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"

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    18Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, "Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive." Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."

    19Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead."

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    14You answered me, and said, "The thing which you have spoken is good [for us] to do."

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    15Yahweh said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.

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    5The people spoke against God, and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread."

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    22You came near to me everyone of you, and said, "Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come."

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    29Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.

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    25He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, "Let's flee from the face of Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!"

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    17It happened, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God didn't lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, "Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt;"

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    41Then you answered and said to me, "We have sinned against Yahweh, we will go up and fight, according to all that Yahweh our God commanded us." Every man of you put on his weapons of war, and presumed to go up into the hill country.