And why has 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?
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
We may. The Latin manuscripts and Bibles before Sixtus V read, "in Egypt, and not in this "But the present translation agrees with the Hebrew, Septuagint, and Chaldean. (Calmet)
They obtained what they said they wished for, ver. 28; chap. xiv. 29; xxvi. 64. (Worthington)
And that. Hebrew, "and wherefore hath God brought us into this land, that we may fall "In a rage they attribute a malicious design to God. (Calmet)
Better. And who would have given them food in the wilderness? (Menochius)
