Bible verse
So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”
Numbers 14:4 · BSB
The verses around it, from Numbers 14.
1 Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.
2 All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!
3 Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
4 So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”
5 Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown before the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel.
6 Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes
7 and said to the whole congregation of Israel, “The land we passed through and explored is an exceedingly good land.
8 If the LORD delights in us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and He will give it to us.
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.
ERV
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
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