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Numbers 14:4

And they said, a man to his brother, Let us appoint a chieftain, and go back into Mizraim.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3And why is the Lord bringing us to this land, that we may fall by the sword, and our wives and our children become a prey? Would it not be better for us to return into Mizraim?

5And Mosheh and Aharon fell upon their faces before all the assembly of the sons of Israel.

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Cross References

Numbers 11:20But for a month of days, until you loathe it, and it be an offence to you; because you have felt, dislike to the Word of the Lord, whose Shekinah dwelleth among you; and before whom you have wept, saying: Why came we out of Mizraim?

Deuteronomy 28:68And the Lord will cause thee to return to Mizraim, in ships, by the way of which I spake with thee, thou shalt see it no more: and there shall you be offered for sale for bondmen and bondwomen, but none shall buy.

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 →

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