Numbers:14:1-12
rsv@Numbers:14:1 @ Then all the congregation raised a loud cry; and the people wept that night.
rsv@Numbers:14:2 @ 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!
rsv@Numbers:14:3 @ 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?"
rsv@Numbers:14:4 @ And they said to one another, "Let us choose a captain, and go back to Egypt."
rsv@Numbers:14:5 @ Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the people of Israel.
rsv@Numbers:14:6 @ And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephun'neh, who were among those who had spied out the land, rent their clothes,
rsv@Numbers:14:7 @ 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.
rsv@Numbers:14:8 @ 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.
rsv@Numbers:14:9 @ 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."
rsv@Numbers:14:10 @ 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.
rsv@Numbers:14:11 @ 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?
rsv@Numbers:14:12 @ 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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