Numbers 14:1-4 ▼

1 Then all the congregation [of Israel] raised their voices and cried out, and the people wept that night.

2 All the Israelites murmured [in discontent] against Moses and Aaron; and the whole congregation said to them, “Oh that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or that we had died in this wilderness!

3 Why is the LORD bringing us to this land [of Canaan], to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”

4 So they said one to another, “Let us appoint a [new] leader and return to Egypt.”