Numbers 14:1-4
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14Then all the congregation 1lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept 2that night. 2And all the sons of Israel agrumbled against Moses and Aaron; and the whole congregation said to them, “bWould that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness! 3“And why is Yahweh bringing us into this land, ato fall by the sword? bOur wives and our little ones will become plunder; would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?” 4So they said to one another, “aLet us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”