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Numbers 14:3Num.14.3

And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

KJV

Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Pourquoi l'Eternel nous fait-il aller dans ce pays, où nous tomberons par l'épée, où nos femmes et nos petits enfants deviendront une proie? Ne vaut-il pas mieux pour nous retourner en Egypte?

KJV

And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

Patristic reading

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  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 134 (Migne)

    ro, quam Propheta hic rememorat, notissima est. Cum enim egressi essent Israelitae de terra Aegypti (Num. XIV, 1-4) , et multam viam perambulassent, et multa indicia virtutis Dei accepissent in Aegypto, in mari Rubro, in eremo, consilium fecerunt mittere speculatores (Num. XIII,…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 183 (Migne)

    d vomitum revertatur. Legimus enim de filiis Israel, quia corde [Col. 0193B] redierunt in Aegyptum (Num. XIV, 3) . Nam corpore reverti, clausum post eorum talos Rubrum mare prohibebat. Hoc est quod vehementer singulis quibusque timendum est, ne quando forte eatenus Deum offendan…

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