Verse 3
Numbers 14:3
Young's Literal Translation
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?'
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/לָ/מָ֣ה יְ֠הוָה מֵבִ֨יא אֹתָ֜/נוּ אֶל הָ/אָ֤רֶץ הַ/זֹּאת֙ לִ/נְפֹּ֣ל בַּ/חֶ֔רֶב נָשֵׁ֥י/נוּ וְ/טַפֵּ֖/נוּ יִהְי֣וּ לָ/בַ֑ז הֲ/ל֧וֹא ט֦וֹב לָ֖/נוּ שׁ֥וּב מִצְרָֽיְמָ/ה
English Translation
And why is the LORD bringing us to this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our children will become a prey. Is it not better for us to return to Egypt?
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Chapter 14 Context
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And all the company lifteth up and give forth their voice, and the people weep during that night;
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and all the sons of Israel murmur against Moses, and against Aaron, and all the company say unto the...
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and why is Jehovah bringing us in unto this land to fall by the sword? our wives and our infants are...
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And they say one unto another, 'Let us appoint a head, and turn back to Egypt.'
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And Moses falleth -- Aaron also -- on their faces, before all the assembly of the company of the son...
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And Joshua son of Nun, and Caleb son of Jephunneh, of those spying the land, have rent their garment...
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and they speak unto all the company of the sons of Israel, saying, 'The land into which we have pass...
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if Jehovah hath delighted in us, then He hath brought us in unto this land, and hath given it to us,...
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only, against Jehovah rebel not ye: and ye, fear not ye the people of the land, for our bread they [...
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And all the company say to stone them with stones, and the honour of Jehovah hath appeared in the te...
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And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Until when doth this people despise Me? and until when do they not be...
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I smite it with pestilence, and dispossess it, and make thee become a nation greater and mightier th...
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13
And Moses saith unto Jehovah, 'Then have the Egyptians heard! for Thou hast brought up with Thy powe...
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and they have said [it] unto the inhabitant of this land, they have heard that Thou, Jehovah, [art]...
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'And Thou hast put to death this people as one man, and the nations who have heard Thy fame have spo...
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From Jehovah's want of ability to bring in this people unto the land which He hath sworn to them --...
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'And now, let, I pray Thee, the power of my Lord be great, as Thou hast spoken, saying:
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Jehovah [is] slow to anger, and of great kindness; bearing away iniquity and transgression, and not...
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forgive, I pray Thee, the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of Thy kindness, and a...
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And Jehovah saith, 'I have forgiven, according to thy word;
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and yet, I live -- and it is filled -- the whole earth -- [with] the honour of Jehovah;
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for all the men who are seeing My honour, and My signs, which I have done in Egypt, and in the wilde...
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they see not the land which I have sworn to their fathers, yea, none of those despising Me see it;
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and My servant Caleb, because there hath been another spirit with him, and he is fully after Me -- I...
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'And the Amalekite and the Canaanite are dwelling in the valley; to-morrow turn ye and journey for y...
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And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, and unto Aaron, saying,
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'Until when hath this evil company that which they are murmuring against Me? the murmurings of the s...
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say unto them, I live -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- if, as ye have spoken in Mine ears -- so I do...
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in this wilderness do your carcases fall, even all your numbered ones, to all your number, from a so...
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ye -- ye come not in unto the land which I have lifted up My hand to cause you to tabernacle in it,...
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'As to your infants -- of whom ye have said, A spoil they are become -- I have even brought them in,...
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as to you -- your carcases do fall in this wilderness,
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and your sons are evil in the wilderness forty years, and have borne your whoredoms till your carcas...
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by the number of the days [in] which ye spied the land, forty days, -- a day for a year, a day for a...
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I [am] Jehovah, I have spoken; if I do not this to all this evil company who are meeting against me;...
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And the men whom Moses hath sent to spy the land, and they turn back and cause all the company to mu...
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even the men bringing out an evil account of the land die by the plague before Jehovah;
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and Joshua son of Nun, and Caleb son of Jephunneh, have lived of those men who go to spy out the lan...
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And Moses speaketh these words unto all the sons of Israel, and the people mourn exceedingly,
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and they rise early in the morning, and go up unto the top of the mountain, saying, 'Here we [are],...
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And Moses saith, 'Why [is] this? -- ye are transgressing the command of Jehovah, and it doth not pro...
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go not up, for Jehovah is not in your midst, and ye are not smitten before your enemies;
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for the Amalekite and the Canaanite [are] there before you, and ye have fallen by the sword, because...
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And they presume to go up unto the top of the mountain, and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah and M...
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And the Amalekite and the Canaanite who are dwelling in that mountain come down and smite them, and...
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