11 Then (A)they said to Moses, “Is it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you dealt with us in this way, [a]bringing us out of Egypt? 12 (B)Is this not the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘[b]Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness!”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 14:11 Lit so as to bring
  2. Exodus 14:12 Lit Cease from us

11 And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?

12 Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.

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17 Yet they still continued to sin against Him,
To (A)rebel against the Most High in the desert.

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17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.

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