Exodus 14:12 meaning and explanation
Did we not say to you in Egypt, ‘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.”
Exodus 14:12, Berean Standard Bible
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These are the words of the Israelites to Moses at the Red Sea, with Pharaoh's chariots closing in behind them (verses 9 to 10). Terrified, they recall what they claim they said in Egypt: leave us alone to serve the Egyptians.
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