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

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.

²² because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

²⁷ How long [shall I bear] with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

²⁸ Tell them, As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:

²⁹ your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,

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

²⁷ and you murmured in your tents, and said, Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

⁷ For he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, And the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

⁸ Don't harden your heart, as at Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

⁹ When your fathers tempted me, Tested me, and saw my work.

⁷ Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice,

⁸ Don't harden your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

¹⁵ while it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, Don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion."