1. All through that night, the entire community raised up their voices. The people wept.
2. All Bnei-Yisrael grumbled against Moses and Aaron and the whole community said, “If only we had died in Egypt! If only we had died in this wilderness!
3. Why is Adonai bringing us to this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be like plunder! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?”
4. They said to each other, “Let’s choose a leader and let’s go back to Egypt!”
5. Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before the entire assembly of the community of Bnei-Yisrael.
6. Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had explored the land, tore their clothes.
7. They said to the whole assembly of Bnei-Yisrael, “The land through which we passed is an exceptionally good land!