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Exodus 14:12

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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Exodus 14:12

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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1 Nephi 4 — Laban's Sword, the Caiaphas Principle, and the Liberation of Zoram
1 Nephi 18 — The Ship, the Bound Prophet, and the Sea That Obeys the Compass
2 Nephi 7 — Isaiah 50 — The Bill of Divorcement, the Smitten Cheek, and the Face Set Like a Flint
2 Nephi 8 — Isaiah 51–52:2 — Look unto the Rock, the Cup of Trembling, Awake and Put on Strength
2 Nephi 14 — Isaiah 4 — The Branch of the Lord and the Restored Pillar of Cloud and Fire
3 Nephi 3 — We Will Wait Till They Come — Lachoneus, Gidgiddoni, and the Defense of a Gathered People
3 Nephi 4 — Hosanna to the Most High God — The Robbers Broken and the Song of Deliverance
Alma 8 — The Angel Returns — Alma Cast Out of Ammonihah and Sent Back with a Second Witness
Alma 24 — Rather Than Shed the Blood of Our Brethren — Weapons Buried Deep, 1,005 Slain Singing Praise, and the Convert Count That Exceeded the Body Count
Ether 6 — Driven Forth Before the Wind — The Crossing of the Deep, and a People That Sang in the Storm
Mosiah 7 — Ammon Finds the Lost Colony — The Bondage Pattern, the Slain Prophet, and the First Pre-Christian Christology Outside Benjamin
Mosiah 10 — The Tradition of the Fathers — A Wrong That Is Taught, A Hatred That Is Inherited, A Deliverance That Comes by Remembrance
Mosiah 12 — Abinadi Returns in Disguise — Bound, Tried, and Questioned with Isaiah's Good Tidings
Mosiah 17 — Abinadi Sealed by Fire — Alma Believes, the Word Is Hidden Away, the Prophet Dies as the Type He Named Himself to Be
Mosiah 18 — Waters of Mormon — The Baptismal Covenant, the Mourning-with-Them-that-Mourn, and the First Nephite Church
Mosiah 19 — Noah Burned With Fire — Abinadi's Prophecy Fulfilled, the Colony's Tribute Begins, and the Priests Vanish into the Wilderness
Mosiah 22 — Gideon's Stratagem of Deliverance — Wine to the Guards, Departure by the Back Pass, the Lamanite Pursuit Lost in the Wilderness, and the Joining of Limhi's People to Mosiah-II in Zarahemla
Mosiah 23 — Alma's People in Helam — The Refused Kingship, the Liberty Doctrine, the Land Beautiful, the Amulonites Discovered, and the Lord Chasteneth Those Whom He Loveth
Mosiah 24 — Burdens Made Light — Amulon's Authority, the Forbidden Prayer, the Voice of the Lord in Their Affliction, the Deep Sleep upon the Lamanites, and the Valley Named Alma
Doctrine and Covenants 8 — In Your Mind and in Your Heart
Doctrine and Covenants 103 — The Redemption of Zion by Power
Doctrine and Covenants 105 — Wait for a Little Season
Doctrine and Covenants 123 — Waste and Wear Out Our Lives
2 Chronicles 20 — Our Eyes Are Upon Thee — The Fast, the Model Prayer of the Outmatched, the Battle That Belonged to God, and the Singers Sent First
2 Kings 2 — The Chariot of Fire and the Fallen Mantle — Elijah's Last Walk, the Double Portion, the Whirlwind into Heaven, and the Salt in a New Cruse
2 Kings 7 — The Noise That Emptied a Camp — Flour for a Shekel, Windows in Heaven, Four Lepers at Twilight, and the Day of Good Tidings
2 Kings 16 — The Copied Altar — Ahaz Gives His Son to the Fire, Buys an Empire with the Temple's Treasure, Orders the Pattern of Damascus from a Compliant Priest, and Refuses the Sign of Immanuel
Job 13 — Physicians of No Value — Job Refuses to Lie for God, Turns to the Almighty, and Says the Line That Anchors the Book: Though He Slay Me, Yet Will I Trust in Him
Nehemiah 4 — The Trowel and the Sword — Mockery, Conspiracy, and the Wall That Rose Anyway
Psalms 20 — Some Trust in Chariots — A Nation Prays for Its King on the Day of Battle
Psalms 30 — Joy Cometh in the Morning — The Psalm of the Drawn-Up Soul, the God Whose Anger Is a Moment, and the Mourning Turned to Dancing

Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge via openbible.info (CC BY) and from this project’s own chapter essays. Read Exodus 14:12 in context.