Verse 4
Numbers 14:4
King James Version
4
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּאמְר֖וּ אִ֣ישׁ אֶל אָחִ֑י/ו נִתְּנָ֥ה רֹ֖אשׁ וְ/נָשׁ֥וּבָה מִצְרָֽיְמָ/ה
English Translation
And they said, "Let us appoint a leader, and let us return to Egypt."
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Chapter 14 Context
1
And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
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And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation...
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And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our...
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And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
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Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children...
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And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
which were of them that searched the land...
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And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed thr...
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8
If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which flowet...
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9
Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they
are bread for u...
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10
But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabe...
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11
And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they...
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12
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation a...
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13
And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear
it,
(for thou broughtest up this people...
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14
And they will tell
it to the inhabitants of this land:
for they have heard that thou LORD
art among...
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15
Now
if thou shalt kill
all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of the...
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16
Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore...
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17
And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
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18
The LORD
is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means...
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19
Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and a...
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20
And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
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But
as truly
as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.
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Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wil...
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23
Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that...
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But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I...
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(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into th...
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And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
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How long
shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmuri...
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28
Say unto them,
As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to y...
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Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your wh...
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30
Doubtless ye shall not come into the land,
concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save...
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But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the...
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32
But
as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
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33
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your ca...
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34
After the number of the days in which ye searched the land,
even
forty days, each day for a year, s...
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I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered togethe...
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And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to mur...
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37
Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
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But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
which were of the men that went to search...
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39
And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
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40
And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we...
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41
And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper...
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42
Go not up, for the LORD
is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.
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43
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites
are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because...
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44
But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and...
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45
Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and disc...
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