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Numbers 14:5

Verse 5 of 45. The 14th of 36 chapters in Numbers, in The Law.

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

2All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!

3Why does the LORD bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”

4They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”

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

6Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.

7They spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.

8If the LORD delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us: a land which flows with milk and honey.

9Only don’t rebel against the LORD, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and the LORD is with us. Don’t fear them.”

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.