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Numbers 14:13 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Moses said to the LORD, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them. "
Numbers 14:13
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
11 The LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? How long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
12 I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
13 Moses said to the LORD, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them.
14 They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you LORD are among this people; for you LORD are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.
15 Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
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Numbers 14:1
"All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night."
Numbers 14:2
"All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!"
Numbers 14:3
"Why does the LORD bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”"
Numbers 14:4
"They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”"
Numbers 14:5
"Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel."
Numbers 14:6
"Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes."
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