Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

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

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."

The Emphasized Bible

And they said, one to another, - Let us appoint a head and let us go back towards 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 Why is the Lord bringing us into this land to die by the sword? Our wives and little children will become plunder. Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt?” 4 So they said to one another, “Let’s appoint a leader and go back to Egypt.” 5 Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground in front of the whole assembly of the Israelite community.


Cross References

Deuteronomy 17:16

However, he must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire many horses, for the Lord has told you, ‘You are never to go back that way again.’

Acts 7:39

Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him away, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

Deuteronomy 28:68

The Lord will take you back in ships to Egypt by a route that I said you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

Nehemiah 9:16-17

But our ancestors acted arrogantly;
they became stiff-necked and did not listen to Your commands.

Luke 17:32

Remember Lot’s wife!

Hebrews 10:38-39

But My righteous one will live by faith;
and if he draws back,
I have no pleasure in him.

Hebrews 11:15

If they were thinking about where they came from, they would have had an opportunity to return.

2 Peter 2:21-22

For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them.

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