Numbers 14:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and why is Jehovah bringing us in unto this land to fall by the sword? our wives and our infants are become a prey; is it not good for us to turn back to Egypt?'

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 14:31-32 : 31 `As to your infants -- of whom ye have said, A spoil they are become -- I have even brought them in, and they have known the land which ye have kicked against; 32 as to you -- your carcases do fall in this wilderness,
  • Ps 78:40 : 40 How often do they provoke Him in the wilderness, Grieve Him in the desolate place?
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 And they bend their tongue, their bow `is' a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah!

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  • Num 14:4
    82%

    4And they say one unto another, `Let us appoint a head, and turn back to Egypt.'

  • Exod 14:10-12
    3 verses
    82%

    10And Pharaoh hath drawn near, and the sons of Israel lift up their eyes, and lo, the Egyptians are journeying after them, and they fear exceedingly, and the sons of Israel cry unto Jehovah.

    11And they say unto Moses, `Because there are no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in a wilderness? what is this thou hast done to us -- to bring us out from Egypt?

    12Is not this the word which we spake unto thee in Egypt, saying, Cease from us, and we serve the Egyptians; for better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in a wilderness?'

  • Num 14:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1And all the company lifteth up and give forth their voice, and the people weep during that night;

    2and all the sons of Israel murmur against Moses, and against Aaron, and all the company say unto them, `O that we had died in the land of Egypt, or in this wilderness, O that we had died!

  • Num 20:3-5
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    80%

    3and the people strive with Moses, and speak, saying, `And oh that we had expired when our brethren expired before Jehovah!

    4and why have ye brought in the assembly of Jehovah unto this wilderness to die there, we and our beasts?

    5and why hast thou brought us up out of Egypt to bring us in unto this evil place? no place of seed, and fig, and vine, and pomegranate; and water there is none to drink.

  • Exod 16:3
    79%

    3and the sons of Israel say unto them, `Oh that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, in our sitting by the flesh-pot, in our eating bread to satiety -- for ye have brought us out unto this wilderness to put all this assembly to death with hunger.'

  • Deut 1:27-28
    2 verses
    78%

    27and murmur in your tents, and say, In Jehovah's hating us He hath brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorite -- to destroy us;

    28whither are we going up? our brethren have melted our heart, saying, A people greater and taller than we, cities great and fenced to heaven, and also sons of Anakim -- we have seen there.

  • Exod 17:3
    77%

    3and the people thirst there for water, and the people murmur against Moses, and say, `Why `is' this? -- thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to put us to death, also our sons and our cattle, with thirst.'

  • Deut 9:28
    76%

    28lest the land say from which Thou hast brought us out, Because of Jehovah's want of ability to bring them in unto the land of which He hath spoken to them, and because of His hating them, He brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness;

  • Num 16:13-14
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    13is it little that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to put us to death in a wilderness that thou also certainly makest thyself prince over us?

    14Yea, unto a land flowing with milk and honey thou hast not brought us in, nor dost thou give to us an inheritance of field and vineyard; the eyes of these men dost thou pick out? we do not come up.'

  • Jer 42:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13`And if ye are saying, We do not dwell in this land -- not to hearken to the voice of Jehovah your God,

    14saying, No; but the land of Egypt we enter, that we see no war, and the sound of a trumpet do not hear, and for bread be not hungry; and there do we dwell.

  • Num 32:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    17and we -- we are armed hasting before the sons of Israel till that we have brought them in unto their place; and our infants have dwelt in the cities of defence because of the inhabitants of the land;

    18we do not turn back unto our houses till the sons of Israel have inherited each his inheritance,

  • Num 20:15-16
    2 verses
    75%

    15that our fathers go down to Egypt, and we dwell in Egypt many days, and the Egyptians do evil to us and to our fathers;

    16and we cry unto Jehovah, and He heareth our voice, and sendeth a messenger, and is bringing us out of Egypt; and lo, we `are' in Kadesh, a city `in' the extremity of thy border.

  • Jer 2:6
    74%

    6And have not said, Where `is' Jehovah, Who bringeth us up out of the land of Egypt, Who leadeth us in a wilderness, In a land of deserts and pits, In a dry land, and of death-shade, In a land -- none hath passed through it, Nor dwelt hath man there?'

  • Num 32:7
    74%

    7and why discourage ye the heart of the sons of Israel from passing over unto the land which Jehovah hath given to them?

  • Num 17:12
    74%

    12And the sons of Israel speak unto Moses, saying, `Lo, we have expired; we have perished; we have all of us perished;

  • Num 14:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8if Jehovah hath delighted in us, then He hath brought us in unto this land, and hath given it to us, a land which is flowing with milk and honey;

    9only, against Jehovah rebel not ye: and ye, fear not ye the people of the land, for our bread they `are'; their defence hath turned aside from off them, and Jehovah `is' with us; fear them not.'

  • Num 21:5
    73%

    5and the people speak against God, and against Moses, `Why hast thou brought us up out of Egypt to die in a wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water, and our soul hath been weary of this light bread.'

  • Exod 5:3
    73%

    3And they say, `The God of the Hebrews hath met with us, let us go, we pray thee, a journey of three days into the wilderness, and we sacrifice to Jehovah our God, lest He meet us with pestilence or with sword.'

  • Exod 5:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21and say unto them, `Jehovah look upon you, and judge, because ye have caused our fragrance to stink in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants -- to give a sword into their hand to slay us.'

    22And Moses turneth back unto Jehovah, and saith, `Lord, why hast Thou done evil to this people? why `is' this? -- Thou hast sent me!

  • Josh 7:7
    73%

    7And Joshua saith, `Ah, Lord Jehovah, why hast Thou at all caused this people to pass over the Jordan, to give us into the hand of the Amorite to destroy us? -- and oh that we had been willing -- and we dwell beyond the Jordan!

  • Exod 13:17
    73%

    17And it cometh to pass in Pharaoh's sending the people away, that God hath not led them the way of the land of the Philistines, for it `is' near; for God said, `Lest the people repent in their seeing war, and have turned back towards Egypt;'

  • Josh 24:17
    73%

    17for Jehovah our God `is' He who is bringing us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants, and who hath done before our eyes these great signs, and doth keep us in all the way in which we have gone, and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed;

  • Num 14:39
    73%

    39And Moses speaketh these words unto all the sons of Israel, and the people mourn exceedingly,

  • Exod 10:9-10
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    9And Moses saith, `With our young ones, and with our aged ones, we go, with our sons, and with our daughters, with our flock, and our herd, we go, for we have a festival to Jehovah.'

    10And he saith unto them, `Be it so, Jehovah `be' with you when I send you and your infants away; see -- for evil `is' before your faces;

  • Num 31:15
    72%

    15And Moses saith unto them, `Have ye kept alive every female?

  • Acts 7:39
    72%

    39to whom our fathers did not wish to become obedient, but did thrust away, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

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    72%

    12why do the Egyptians speak, saying, For evil He brought them out to slay them among mountains, and to consume them from off the face of the ground? turn back from the heat of Thine anger, and repent of the evil against Thy people.

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    72%

    19`And we journey from Horeb, and go `through' all that great and fearful wilderness which ye have seen -- the way of the hill-country of the Amorite, as Jehovah our God hath commanded us, and we come in unto Kadesh-Barnea.

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    26our infants, our wives, our cattle, and all our beasts, are there in cities of Gilead,

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    3and Pharaoh hath said of the sons of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut upon them;

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    27A journey of three days we go into the wilderness, and have sacrificed to Jehovah our God, as He saith unto us.'

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    72%

    40and ye, turn for yourselves, and journey toward the wilderness, the way of the Red Sea.