⁴ So they said to one another, ^(A)“Let us select a leader and ^(B)return to Egypt.”

³⁹ whom our fathers ^(A)would not obey, but rejected. And in their hearts they turned back to Egypt,

^32 (A)Remember Lot’s wife.

¹⁶ But he shall not multiply ^(A)horses for himself, nor cause the people ^(B)to return to Egypt to multiply horses, for ^(C)the Lord has said to you, ^(D)‘You shall not return that way again.’

¹⁵ And truly if they had called to mind ^(A)that country from which they had come out, they would have had opportunity to return.

⁶⁸ “And the Lord ^(A)will take you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, ^(B)‘You shall never see it again.’ And there you shall be offered for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

²¹ For ^(A)it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. ²² But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: ^(B)“A dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.”

³⁹ But we are not of those ^(B)who draw back to ^[b]perdition, but of those who ^(C)believe to the saving of the soul.