Numbers 14:3-4 Devotionals, Articles & Bible Study

³Why 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?”

⁴So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”

— Numbers 14:3-4

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