Numbers 14:4
And they said one to another, Let us make a Rosh (Leader), and let us go back unto Mitzrayim.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
In Context
5Then Moshe and Aharon fell on their faces before Kol Kehal Adat Bnei Yisroel.
Cross References
Numbers 11:20But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you; because that meastem (ye have rejected) Hashem Who is among you, and have wept before Him, saying, Why came we forth out of Mitzrayim?
Deuteronomy 28:68And Hashem shall bring thee into Mitzrayim again with oniyyot, by the way whereof I spoke unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again; and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for avadim and shefachot, and no ish shall buy you.
Nehemiah 9:17And refused to obey, neither were mindful of Thy wonders that Thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a rosh to return to their bondage; but Thou art Eloah Selichot, channun and rachum, slow to anger, and of great chesed, and forsookest them not.
Luke 17:32Remember eshet Lot (Lotʼs wife). + 17:32 Gn 19:26
Hebrews 10:38V'TZADDIK VE'EMUNATO YICHEYEH + 10:38 Hab 2:3-4 (And my tzaddik will live by Emunah). And, if he shrinks back as a shmad defector, LO RATZTAH NAFSHI BO (My soul has no pleasure in him).
2 Peter 2:21For better it was for them not to have da'as of the Derech HaTzidkanut (the Way of Righteousness) than, having known it, to turn away from the mitzvah hakedosha handed down to them.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 14:2-5
The Murmuring of the Israelites. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. 2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! 3 And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return… Read the whole commentary →