Numbers 14:4
New Living Translation
4 Then they plotted among themselves, “Let’s choose a new leader and go back to Egypt!”
Read full chapter
Acts 7:39
New Living Translation
39 “But our ancestors refused to listen to Moses. They rejected him and wanted to return to Egypt.
Read full chapter
Nehemiah 9:16-17
New Living Translation
16 “But our ancestors were proud and stubborn, and they paid no attention to your commands. 17 They refused to obey and did not remember the miracles you had done for them. Instead, they became stubborn and appointed a leader to take them back to their slavery in Egypt.[a] But you are a God of forgiveness, gracious and merciful, slow to become angry, and rich in unfailing love. You did not abandon them,
Footnotes
- 9:17 As in Greek version; Hebrew reads in their rebellion.
Luke 17:32
New Living Translation
32 Remember what happened to Lot’s wife!
Read full chapter
Deuteronomy 17:16
New Living Translation
16 “The king must not build up a large stable of horses for himself or send his people to Egypt to buy horses, for the Lord has told you, ‘You must never return to Egypt.’
Read full chapter
Hebrews 11:15
New Living Translation
15 If they had longed for the country they came from, they could have gone back.
Read full chapter
Deuteronomy 28:68
New Living Translation
68 Then the Lord will send you back to Egypt in ships, to a destination I promised you would never see again. There you will offer to sell yourselves to your enemies as slaves, but no one will buy you.”
Read full chapter
2 Peter 2:21-22
New Living Translation
21 It would be better if they had never known the way to righteousness than to know it and then reject the command they were given to live a holy life. 22 They prove the truth of this proverb: “A dog returns to its vomit.”[a] And another says, “A washed pig returns to the mud.”
Read full chapterFootnotes
Hebrews 10:38-39
New Living Translation
38 And my righteous ones will live by faith.[a]
But I will take no pleasure in anyone who turns away.”[b]
39 But we are not like those who turn away from God to their own destruction. We are the faithful ones, whose souls will be saved.
Read full chapterHoly Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.