Numbers 14:4
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”
In context
2 All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!
3 Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
4 So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”
5 Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown before the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel.
6 Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes
Numbers 14:4 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”
- KJV King James Version
- And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
- WEB World English Bible
- They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”
- ASV American Standard Version
- And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And they say one unto another, 'Let us appoint a head, and turn back to Egypt.'
- DBY Darby Translation
- And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return to Egypt.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.