²⁶ Yet you wouldn't go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God:

¹ All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

² All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and 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!

³ Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?

⁴ They said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

⁵¹ "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

²⁴ Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn't believe his word,

²⁵ But murmured in their tents, And didn't listen to Yahweh's voice.

¹⁰ But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] himself fought against them.