^{1 Ref} And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

^{2 Ref} And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!

^{3 Ref} And wherefore doth Jehovah bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: were it not better for us to return into Egypt?