1. Therefore the whole multitude crying wept that night.
2. And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying:
3. Would God that we had died in Egypt and would God we may die in this vast wilderness, and that the Lord may not bring us into this land, lest we fall by the sword, and our wives and children be led away captives. Is it not better to return into Egypt?
4. And they said one to another: Let us appoint a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
5. And when Moses and Aaron heard this, they fell down flat upon the ground before the multitude of the children of Israel.
6. But Josue the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephone, who themselves also had viewed the land, rent their garments,
7. And said to all the multitude of the children of Israel: The land which we have gone round is very good:
8. If the Lord be favourable, he will bring us into it, and give us a land flowing with milk and honey.