Numbers 14:4
World English Bible (WEB)
They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”
In context
2 All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!
3 Why does the LORD bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”
4 They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”
5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
6 Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.
Numbers 14:4 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”
- KJV King James Version
- And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to 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.