Numbers 14:4
And they said one to another: Let us appoint a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dixeruntque alter ad alterum : Constituamus nobis ducem, et revertamur in Ægyptum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπαν ἕτερος τῷ ἑτέρῳ Δῶμεν ἀρχηγὸν καὶ ἀποστρέψωμεν εἰς Αἴγυπτον.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ אִ֣ישׁ אֶל אָחִ֑יו נִתְּנָ֥ה רֹ֖אשׁ וְנָשׁ֥וּבָה מִצְרָֽיְמָה
Haydock's commentary
Captain, instead of Moses, whom they could not bring over to their criminal design, no more than Aaron, Josue, Caleb, &c. (Haydock)
Some imagine the rebels wanted to choose themselves a king, (Calmet) or even another god. (Drusius)
Every community acknowledges the necessity of having one at the head. (Worthington)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.