1. The entire community raised their voice and the people wept that night.
2. All the Israelites criticized Moses and Aaron. The entire community said to them, "If only we had died in the land of Egypt or if only we had died in this desert!
3. Why is the Lord bringing us to this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our children will be taken by force. Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?"
4. So they said to each other, "Let’s pick a leader and let’s go back to Egypt."
5. Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before the assembled Israelite community.
6. But Joshua, Nun’s son, and Caleb, Jephunneh’s son, from those who had explored the land, tore their clothes
7. and said to the entire Israelite community, "The land we crossed through to explore is an exceptionally good land.