Numbers 14:1-8 ▼

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.”

5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the Israelites.

6 Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes [as a sign of grief],

7 and they spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, “The land through which we passed as spies is an exceedingly good land.

8 If the LORD delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey.