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Numbers 14:2 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! "
Numbers 14:2
Verse in Context
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1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
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Numbers 14:1
"And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night."
Numbers 14:3
"And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?"
Numbers 14:4
"And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us 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
"And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:"
Numbers 14:7
"And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land."
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