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Numbers 14:4
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They said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Mitzrayim.
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
They said to each other, "Let us appoint a leader, and we will return to Egypt."
They said to each other, "Let's choose a leader and go back to Egypt."
So they said to one another, "Let's appoint a leader and return to Egypt."
So they said one to another, "Let us appoint a [new] leader and return to Egypt."
So they said to one another, "Let's appoint a leader and return to Egypt!"
And they said one to another, Let vs make a Captaine and returne into Egypt.
So they said to one another, "Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt."
Then they said to one another, "Let's choose our own leader and go back."
And they said to each other, "Let's appoint a leader and return to Egypt!"
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return to Egypt.
Then the people said to each other, "Let's choose another leader and go back to Egypt."
And they said to one another, "Let us choose a leader and go back to Egypt."
And they said one to another, Let us appoint a leader, and let us return to Egypt.
So they said to one another, "Let's choose a leader and go back to Egypt!"
So they said to one another, “Let’s appoint a leader and go back to Egypt.”
And they said each to his brother, Let us give a leader and return to Egypt.
And they sayde one to another: Let vs make a captayne, and go into Egipte agayne.
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
And they said to one another, Let us make a captain over us, and go back to Egypt.
And they sayd one to another: Let vs make a captayne, and returne vnto Egypt agayne.
And they saide one to another, Let vs make a captaine, and let vs returne into Egypt.
And they said one to another, Let us make a ruler, and return into Egypt.
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
So they said to one another, "Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt."
And thei seiden oon to another, Ordeyne we a duyk to vs, and turne we ayen in to Egipt.
And they say one unto another, `Let us appoint a head, and turn back to Egypt.'
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
They said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
So they said to one another, "Let us select a leader and return to Egypt."
Then they plotted among themselves, "Let's choose a new leader and go back to Egypt!"
So they said to one another, "Let us choose a leader and return to Egypt."
So they said to one another, "Let us choose a captain, and go back to Egypt."
And they said, one to another, - Let us appoint a head and let us go back towards Egypt.
And they said one to another: Let us appoint a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
And they said to one another, "Let us choose a captain, and go back to Egypt."
Soon they were all saying it to one another: "Let's pick a new leader; let's head back to Egypt."
So they said to one another, "Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt."
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Deuteronomy 17:16, Deuteronomy 28:68, Nehemiah 9:16, Nehemiah 9:17, Luke 17:32, Acts 7:39, Hebrews 10:38, Hebrews 10:39, Hebrews 11:15, 2 Peter 2:21, 2 Peter 2:22
Reciprocal: Numbers 14:25 - turn you Psalms 78:41 - Yea Hebrews 3:16 - some
Cross-References
But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? shall he break the covenant, and yet escape?
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And they said one to another, let us make a captain,.... An head over them instead of Moses, who they knew would never take the government and care of them, should they resolve to return to Egypt as they proposed, and besides were now so disaffected to him, that they might not care he should. Captains they had over their several tribes, but they chose to have one chief commander and general over them all; Nehemiah says they did appoint one; which they either actually did, or this proposal was interpreted as if really put in execution, they being so desirous of it, and bent upon it; wherefore their will is taken for the deed, and so understood; see Nehemiah 9:17;
and let us return into Egypt: which was downright madness, as some interpreters have justly observed; they must not only expect to be deserted by Moses, through whose means so many miracles had been wrought for them, and who was so wise and faithful a governor of them; and by Aaron their priest, who offered their sacrifices, and prayed for them, and blessed them; and by such a valiant general as Joshua, who had fought for them against their enemies; but by the Lord himself, so that they could not expect the manna to be continued as food for them, nor the pillar of cloud and fire as a guide unto them, nor to be protected from their enemies, on the borders of whose countries they must pass; so that their destruction in the wilderness seemed inevitable; and if they could have surmounted these and other difficulties, what manner of reception could they expect to find in Egypt, on whose account all the firstborn of man and beast among them were slain, whom they had spoiled of their riches, and whose king and his army, and in it perhaps the, flower of the nation, were drowned in the Red sea, for their sakes? What therefore could they think of, if they had any sober thought at all, but utter ruin, should they return there again?
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Numbers 14:4. Let us make a captain — Here was a formal renunciation of the authority of Moses, and flat rebellion against God. And it seems from Nehemiah 9:17 that they had actually appointed another leader, under whose direction they were about to return to Egypt. How astonishing is this! Their lives were made bitter, because of the rigour with which they were made to serve in the land of Egypt; and yet they are willing, yea eager, to get back into the same circumstances again! Great evils, when once some time past, affect the mind less than present ills, though much inferior. They had partly forgot their Egyptian bondage, and now smart under a little discouragement, having totally lost sight of their high calling, and of the power and goodness of God.
