Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

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

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.

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 And wherefore does Jehovah bring us to this land to fall by the sword? our wives and our little ones shall be for a prey. Would it not be good for us to turn back to Egypt? 4 And they will say, a man to his brother, We will give a head, and turn back to Egypt 5 And Moses will fall, and Aaron, upon their faces before all the gathering of the assembly of the sons of Israel.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 17:16

Only he shall not multiply. to himself horses, and he shall not turn back the people to Egypt in order to multiply the horse: and Jehovah said to you, Ye shall no more add to turn back that way.

Acts 7:39

To whom our fathers would not be obedient, but rejected, and in their hearts they turned back into Egypt,

Deuteronomy 28:68

And Jehovah turned thee back to Egypt in ships, in the way; which I said to thee, Thou shalt not add more to see it: and ye were sold there to thine enemies for servants, and for maids, and none buying

Nehemiah 9:16-17

And they and our fathers acted proudly, and they will harden their neck, and will not hear to thy commands,

Luke 17:32

Remember Lot's wife.

Hebrews 10:38-39

And the just one shall live by faith; but if he draw down, my soul is not contented in him.

Hebrews 11:15

And truly if they remembered that from which they came out, they had time to have returned.

2 Peter 2:21-22

For it was better for them not to have known the way of justice, than, having known, to turn back from the holy command delivererd to them.

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