Numbers 14:4 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

They said to each other, "Let's choose a leader and go back to Egypt."(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

And they said to one another, Let us make a captain over us, and go back to Egypt.

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

JPS:

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

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

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

Numbers 14:4 Cross References

XREF:

Nehemiah 9:17 "They refused to listen, And did not remember Your wondrous deeds which You had performed among them; So they became stubborn and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But You are a God of forgiveness, Gracious and compassionate, Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness; And You did not forsake them. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

14:4 A captain - Instead of Moses, one who will be more faithful to our interest than he. Into Egypt - Stupendous madness! Whence should they have protection against the hazards, and provision against all the wants of the wilderness? Could they expect either God's cloud to cover and guide them, or Manna from heaven to feed them? Who could conduct them over the Red - sea? Or, if they went another way, who should defend them against those nations whose borders they were to pass? What entertainment could they expect from the Egyptians, whom they had deserted and brought to so much ruin?

MHC:

14:1-4 Those who do not trust God, continually vex themselves. The sorrow of the world worketh death. The Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, and in them reproached the Lord. They look back with causeless discontent. See the madness of unbridled passions, which makes men prodigal of what nature accounts most dear, life itself. They wish rather to die criminals under God's justice, than to live conquerors in his favour. At last they resolve, that, instead of going forward to Canaan, they would go back to Egypt. Those who walk not in God's counsels, seek their own ruin. Could they expect that God's cloud would lead them, or his manna attend them? Suppose the difficulties of conquering Canaan were as they imagined, those of returning to Egypt were much greater. We complain of our place and lot, and we would change; but is there any place or condition in this world, that has not something in it to make us uneasy, if we are disposed to be so? The way to better our condition, is to get our spirits in a better frame. See the folly of turning from the ways of God. But men run on the certain fatal consequences of a sinful course.

CONC:

Appoint Captain Choose Egypt Leader Return Turn

Appoint Captain Choose Egypt Head Turn

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