1. All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
2. All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!
3. Why does the Lord bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”
4. They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s 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. Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.
7. They spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.