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


In Context

1 All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

2 All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, |Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!

3 Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?|

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

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

6 Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out 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 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 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 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.