Devine Scripture

Numbers 14:4

Numbers chapter 14 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.3And wherefore doth Jehovah bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

v.4This passage

v.5Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Deuteronomy 17:16

    Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; forasmuch as Jehovah hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.

  • Deuteronomy 28:68

    And Jehovah will bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I said unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall sell yourselves unto your enemies for bondmen and for bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

  • 2 Peter 2:21

    For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

  • Acts 7:39

    to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him from them, and turned back in their hearts unto Egypt,

  • Hebrews 10:38

    But my righteous one shall live by faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.

  • Luke 17:32

    Remember Lot’s wife.