Scripture · Old Testament
Numbers 14:3
Numbers 14:3 is verse 3 of Numbers chapter 14, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
King James Version
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?
World English Bible
Why does Yahweh 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?”
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Numbers 14:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible
1 Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.
2 All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!
3 Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
4 So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”
5 Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown before the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 78:40How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
Jeremiah 9:3“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
Numbers 14:31But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.
Numbers 14:32As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.