Exo 14:12 | ESV | e4.org | Is not this what we said to you in Egypt : Leave us alone 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

12 Is not this what ^awe said to you in Egypt: ‘Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”