1. And the whole assembly lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
2. And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and the whole assembly said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or in this wilderness would that we had died!
3. And why is Jehovah bringing us to this land that we may fall by the sword, that our wives and our little ones may become a prey? Is it not better for us to return to Egypt?
4. And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return to Egypt.
5. Then Moses and Aaron fell upon their faces before the whole congregation of the assembly of the children of Israel.
6. And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of them that searched out the land, rent their garments.