Translations
"Isn't this exactly what we told you back in Egypt? We said, 'Leave us alone — let us serve the Egyptians!' It is better to live as slaves in Egypt than to die out here in the wilderness!"
"Is this not the very word we spoke to you in Mitzrayim: 'Leave us alone — let us serve Mitzrayim!'? For serving Mitzrayim is better for us than dying in the wilderness!"
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.
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.”

