Numbers 14:2-5
14:2 And all the Israelites murmured
against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died
in the land of Egypt, or if only we had perished
in this wilderness!
14:3 Why has the
Lord brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?”
14:4 So they said to one another,
“Let’s appoint
a leader
and return
to Egypt.”
14:5 Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground before the whole assembled community of the Israelites.