1. Then all the community lifted up their voices, and the people wept during that night.
2. And all the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and all the community said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt or in this desert!
3. Why did Yahweh bring us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little children will become plunder; would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”
4. They said to each other, “Let us appoint a leader, and we will return to Egypt.”
5. Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before the assembly of the community of the Israelites.