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Numbers 14:5 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. "
Numbers 14:5
Verse in Context
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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?
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
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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Numbers 14:1
"And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night."
Numbers 14:1
"Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that night they gave themselves up to weeping."
Numbers 14:2
"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!"
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."
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