2. And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
3. And wherefore doth the Lord bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones shall be a prey: were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
4. And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
5. Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
6. And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that spied out the land, rent their clothes:
7. and they spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land.
8. If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it unto us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
9. Only rebel not against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is removed from over them, and the Lord is with us: fear them not.
10. But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the Lord appeared in the tent of meeting unto all the children of Israel.
11. And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have wrought among them?
12. I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.
13. And Moses said unto the Lord, Then the Egyptians shall hear it; for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;
14. and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: they have heard that thou Lord art in the midst of this people; for thou Lord art seen face to face, and thy cloud standeth over them, and thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.