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Numbers 14:3 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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 14:3

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1 All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

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!

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?”

4 They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”

5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

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Related Verses

Exodus 16:3

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"and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”"

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Exodus 14:12

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"Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”"

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Amos 7:17

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"Therefore the LORD says: ‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’”"

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Genesis 47:19

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"Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won’t be desolate.”"

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Numbers 20:3

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"The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!"

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Deuteronomy 1:27

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"You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because the LORD hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us."

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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 14:4

"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."

Numbers 14:7

"They spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land."

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