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Numbers 14:4
And they say one unto another, `Let us appoint a head, and turn back to Egypt.'
Numbers 14:4 · Young's Literal Translation
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Numbers 14:4 in other translations
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”
They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”
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In context
1 And all the company lifteth up and give forth their voice, and the people weep during that night;
2 and all the sons of Israel murmur against Moses, and against Aaron, and all the company say unto them, `O that we had died in the land of Egypt, or in this wilderness, O that we had died!
3 and why is Jehovah bringing us in unto this land to fall by the sword? our wives and our infants are become a prey; is it not good for us to turn back to Egypt?'
4 And they say one unto another, `Let us appoint a head, and turn back to Egypt.'
5 And Moses falleth--Aaron also--on their faces, before all the assembly of the company of the sons of Israel.
6 And Joshua son of Nun, and Caleb son of Jephunneh, of those spying the land, have rent their garments,
7 and they speak unto all the company of the sons of Israel, saying, `The land into which we have passed over to spy it, is a very very good land;
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