1Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that night they gave themselves up to weeping.
2And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land!
3Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?
4And they said to one another, Let us make a captain over us, and go back to Egypt.
5Then Moses and Aaron went down on their faces before the meeting of the people.
6And Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, two of those who had been to see the land, giving signs of grief,
7Said to all the children of Israel, This land which we went through to see is a very good land.
