1. AND ALL the congregation cried out with a loud voice, and [they] wept that night.
2. All the Israelites grumbled and deplored their situation, accusing Moses and Aaron, to whom the whole congregation said, Would that we had died in Egypt! Or that we had died in this wilderness!
3. Why does the Lord bring us to this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and little ones will be a prey. Is it not better for us to return to Egypt? [Acts 7:37-39.]
4. And they said one to another, Let us choose a captain and return to Egypt.
5. Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of Israelites.
6. And Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among the scouts who had searched the land, rent their clothes,