Numbers:14:1-12
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Then all the congregation raised a loud cry ;
and the people wept that night .
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And all the people of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron ;
the whole congregation said to them , "
Would that we had died in the land of Egypt !
Or would that we had died in this wilderness !
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Why does the LORD bring us into this land ,
to fall by the sword ?
Our wives and our little ones will become a prey ;
would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt ?"
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And they said to one another , "
Let us choose a captain ,
and go back to Egypt ."
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Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the people of Israel .
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And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephun '
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who were among those who had spied out the land ,
rent their clothes ,
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and said to all the congregation of the people of Israel , "
The land ,
which we passed through to spy it out ,
is an exceedingly good land .
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If the LORD delights in us ,
he will bring us into this land and give it to us ,
a land which flows with milk and honey .
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Only ,
do not rebel against the LORD ;
and do not fear the people of the land ,
for they are bread for us ;
their protection is removed from them ,
and the LORD is with us ;
do not fear them ."
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But all the congregation said to stone them with stones .
Then the glory of the LORD appeared at the tent of meeting to all the people of Israel .
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And the LORD said to Moses , "
How long will this people despise me ?
And how long will they not believe in me ,
in spite of all the signs which I have wrought among them ?
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I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them ,
and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they ."
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