^{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 God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!

^{3 Ref} And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

^{4 Ref} And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

^{5 Ref} Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

^{6 Ref} And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:

^{7 Ref} And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.

^{8 Ref} If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.

^{9 Ref} Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.

^{10 Ref} But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.