Is not this what we said to you in Egypt:‘ Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

我们在埃及岂没有对你说过，不要搅扰我们，容我们服侍埃及人吗？因为服侍埃及人比死在旷野还好。”

我们在埃及岂没有对你说过，不要搅扰我们，让我们服事埃及人吗？因为服事埃及人总比死在旷野好。”

我们在埃及岂没有对你说过，不要搅扰我们，让我们服事埃及人吗？因为服事埃及人总比死在旷野好。”

我们对你说过，别管我们，就让我们服侍埃及人吧。服侍埃及人总比死在旷野好啊！”

我们在埃及的时候，不是对你说过：‘不要管我们，我们要服事埃及人’这话吗？因为服事埃及人比死在旷野还好。”

我們在埃及豈沒有對你說過，不要攪擾我們，容我們服事埃及人嗎？因為服事埃及人比死在曠野還好。」

我們在埃及豈沒有對你說過，不要攪擾我們，讓我們服事埃及人嗎？因為服事埃及人總比死在曠野好。」

我們在埃及豈沒有對你說過，不要攪擾我們，讓我們服事埃及人嗎？因為服事埃及人總比死在曠野好。」

我們對你說過，別管我們，就讓我們服侍埃及人吧。服侍埃及人總比死在曠野好啊！」

我們在埃及的時候，不是對你說過：‘不要管我們，我們要服事埃及人’這話嗎？因為服事埃及人比死在曠野還好。”

我們在埃及豈沒有對你說過：「不要管我們，容我們去服事埃及人」麼？「服事埃及人、比死在曠野還好呀！」』

我在埃及時、豈不曰、任我為埃及人服役、與其死於曠野、寧服役於埃及人、

我在埃及時、豈不曰、我姑為彼役事、與其死於曠野、寧為埃及人服役。

我儕在伊及時、豈不語爾云、毋擾我、容我役事伊及人、與其死於曠野、甯為伊及人服役、

Didn’t we say to you in Egypt,‘ Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!

We told you in Egypt,‘ Leave us alone. Let us serve the Egyptians.’ It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die here in the desert!”

Didn’t we tell you this would happen while we were still in Egypt? We said,‘ Leave us alone! Let us be slaves to the Egyptians. It’s better to be a slave in Egypt than a corpse in the wilderness!’”

Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt: Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

Is this not the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying,‘ Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness!”

Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying,‘ Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.”

Is not this the word that we spake unto thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.

Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt: Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

[ Is] not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For[ it had been] better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.

Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt,‘ Leave us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians, because it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!’”

Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying,‘ Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery.

And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

and they said to them,“ The Lord look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants, and have put a sword in their hand to kill us.”

When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die and said,“ It is better for me to die than to live.”

Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

And crying out with a loud voice, he said,“ What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.”

Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone.

“ What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are— the Holy One of God.”

And they began to beg Jesus to depart from their region.As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed with demons begged him that he might be with him.