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

And they said {H559} one {H376} to another {H251}, Let us make {H5414} a captain {H7218}, and let us return {H7725} into Egypt {H4714}.

And they said to each other, "Let's appoint a leader and return to Egypt!"

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

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

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Cross-References

  • Acts 7:39 (6 votes)

    To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust [him] from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

  • Nehemiah 9:16 (5 votes)

    But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

  • Nehemiah 9:17 (5 votes)

    And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou [art] a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.

  • Luke 17:32 (4 votes)

    Remember Lot's wife.

  • Deuteronomy 17:16 (4 votes)

    But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.

  • Deuteronomy 28:68 (3 votes)

    And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy [you].

  • Hebrews 11:15 (3 votes)

    And truly, if they had been mindful of that [country] from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.