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


In Context

1 That night all the people of the community raised their voices and wept aloud.

2 All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, "If only we had died in Egypt! Or in this desert!

3 Why is the Lord bringing us to this land only to let us fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be taken as plunder. Wouldn't it be better for us to go back to Egypt?"

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

5 Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown in front of the whole Israelite assembly gathered there.

6 Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had explored the land, tore their clothes

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 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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