4And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return to Egypt.


In Context

1 And the whole assembly 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 assembly said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or in this wilderness would that we had died!

3 And why is Jehovah bringing us to this land that we may fall by the sword, that our wives and our little ones may become a prey? Is it not better for us to return to Egypt?

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

5 Then Moses and Aaron fell upon their faces before the whole congregation of the assembly of the children of Israel.

6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of them that searched out the land, rent their garments.

Numbers 14:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:4And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

14:4And they said to each other, "We should choose a leader and go back to Egypt."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

14:4And they said one to another: Let us appoint a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

14:4And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

14:4And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:4And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:4They said one to another, |Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

14:4And they say one unto another, 'Let us appoint a head, and turn back to Egypt.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:4And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.