They said to one another,“ We should choose another leader. We should go back to Egypt.”

众人彼此说：“我们不如立一个首领回埃及去吧！”

他们彼此说：“我们不如选一个领袖，回埃及去吧！”

他们彼此说：“我们不如选一个领袖，回埃及去吧！”

他们彼此议论说：“我们选一位首领带我们回埃及吧！”

于是他们彼此说：“我们另立一个首领，回埃及去吧。”

眾人彼此說：「我們不如立一個首領回埃及去吧！」

他們彼此說：「我們不如選一個領袖，回埃及去吧！」

他們彼此說：「我們不如選一個領袖，回埃及去吧！」

他們彼此議論說：「我們選一位首領帶我們回埃及吧！」

於是他們彼此說：“我們另立一個首領，回埃及去吧。”

他們就彼此說：『我們立個首領，回埃及去吧！』

遂相議曰、莫若立帥、以歸埃及、

於是相議曰、莫若立牧、以歸埃及。

於是相議曰、莫若立一長、以歸伊及、

And they said to each other,“ We should choose a leader and go back to Egypt.”

And they said to one another,“ Let us choose a leader and go back to Egypt.”

Then they plotted among themselves,“ Let’s choose a new leader and go back to Egypt!”

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

So they said to one another,“ Let’s appoint a leader and return to Egypt!”

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

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

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

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

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

They said to one another,“ Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”

“ But our people refused to obey Moses. They would not accept him. In their hearts, they wished they were back in Egypt.

The king must not get large numbers of horses for himself. He must not make the people return to Egypt to get more horses. The Lord has told you,“ You must not go back there again.”

“ But our people before us became proud and stubborn. They didn’t obey your commands.They refused to listen to you. They forgot the miracles you had done among them. So they became stubborn. When they refused to obey you, they appointed a leader for themselves. They wanted to go back to being slaves in Egypt. But you are a God who forgives. You are gracious. You are tender and kind. You are slow to get angry. You are full of love. So you didn’t desert them.

Suppose they had not known the way of godliness. This would have been better than to know godliness and then turn away from it. The way of godliness is the sacred command passed on to them.What the proverbs say about them is true.“ A dog returns to where it has thrown up.”( Proverbs 26:11) And,“ A pig that is washed goes back to rolling in the mud.”

The Lord will send you back to Egypt in ships. He’ll send you on a journey I said you should never have to make again. You will offer to sell yourselves to your enemies as slaves in Egypt. But no one will buy you.

What if they had been thinking of the country they had left? Then they could have returned to it.

And,“ The one who is right with God will live by faith. And I am not pleased with the one who pulls back.”( Habakkuk 2:3, 4)But we don’t belong to the people who pull back and are destroyed. We belong to the people who believe and are saved.

Remember Lot’s wife!