Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

And they said, one to another, - Let us appoint a head and let us go back towards Egypt.

New American Standard Bible

So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”

King James Version

And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

Holman Bible

So they said to one another, “Let’s appoint a leader and go back to Egypt.”

International Standard Version

Then they told each other, "Let's assign a leader and go back to Egypt."

A Conservative Version

And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

American Standard Version

And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

Amplified

So they said one to another, “Let us appoint a [new] leader and return to Egypt.”

Bible in Basic English

And they said to one another, Let us make a captain over us, and go back to Egypt.

Darby Translation

And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return to Egypt.

Julia Smith Translation

And they will say, a man to his brother, We will give a head, and turn back to Egypt

King James 2000

And they said one to another, Let us choose a leader, and let us return into Egypt.

Lexham Expanded Bible

{They said to each other}, "Let us appoint a leader, and we will return [to] Egypt."

Modern King James verseion

And they said to one another, Let us make a leader, and let us return to Egypt.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And they said, one to another, "Let us make a captain and return unto Egypt again."

NET Bible

So they said to one another, "Let's appoint a leader and return to Egypt."

New Heart English Bible

They said one to another, "Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt."

Webster

And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

World English Bible

They said one to another, "Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt."

Youngs Literal Translation

And they say one unto another, 'Let us appoint a head, and turn back to Egypt.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
one
אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

to another
אח 
'ach 
Usage: 629

Let us make
נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

ראשׁ 
Ro'sh 
Usage: 598

and let us return
שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

References

Context Readings

The People Complain

3 Wherefore then is Yahweh bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and little ones, will become a prey! Would it not be well for us to go back towards Egypt? 4 And they said, one to another, - Let us appoint a head and let us go back towards Egypt. 5 Then did Moses and Aaron fall upon their faces, - before all the convocation of the assembly of the sons of Israel.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 17:16

Moreover he shall not multiply to himself horses, neither shall he cause the people to return to Egypt that he may multiply horses, - when, Yahweh, hath said unto you, Ye shall not again return this way any more.

Acts 7:39

Unto whom, our fathers would not become obedient, but thrust him away, and turned in their hearts unto Egypt,

Deuteronomy 28:68

And Yahweh will take thee back again to Egypt in ships, by the way whereof I said unto thee, Thou shalt not again any more see it. And ye will offer yourselves there for sale unto thine enemies as servants and as handmaids with no one to buy.

Nehemiah 9:16-17

But, they and our fathers, dealt proudly, - and hardened their neck, and hearkened not unto thy commandments;

Luke 17:32

Bear in mind the wife of Lot! Whosoever shall seek to make his life his own, shall lose it,

Hebrews 10:38-39

But, my righteous one, by faith, shall live, and, if he draw back, my soul delighteth not in him.

Hebrews 11:15

And, if indeed of that they had been mindful, from which they had come out, they might, in that case, have had an opportunity, to return;

2 Peter 2:21-22

For, better, had it been for them - not to have obtained a personal knowledge of the way of righteousness, than, having obtained such knowledge, to turn back out of the holy commandment delivered unto them.

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