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Numbers 14:4

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

KJV

Dixeruntque alter ad alterum : Constituamus nobis ducem, et revertamur in Ægyptum.

Vulgate

καὶ εἶπαν ἕτερος τῷ ἑτέρῳ Δῶμεν ἀρχηγὸν καὶ ἀποστρέψωμεν εἰς Αἴγυπτον.

LXX

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

ASV

וַ/יֹּאמְר֖וּ אִ֣ישׁ אֶל אָחִ֑י/ו נִתְּנָ֥ה רֹ֖אשׁ וְ/נָשׁ֥וּבָה מִצְרָֽיְמָ/ה

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אִ֣ישׁ
'ysh
noun · 2171×
אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
ו
v
noun · 629×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
ם
m
verb · 1995×
מִצְרַ֔יִם
mtsrym
proper_noun · 634×
רֹ֣אשׁ
r'sh
noun · 593×
שׁ֣וּב
shvb
verb · 1058×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Acts 7:39 — To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
  • Deut 17:16 — But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no
  • Deut 28:68 — And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen
  • Heb 3:16 — For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
  • Heb 11:15 — And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
  • Luke 17:32 — Remember Lot’s wife.
  • Neh 9:16 — But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
  • Ps 78:41 — Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.