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.
8. If the Lord delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us: a land which flows with milk and honey.
9. Only don’t rebel against the Lord, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and the Lord is with us. Don’t fear them.”
10. But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones.the Lord’s glory appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.
11. The Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
12. I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
13. Moses said to the Lord, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them.