Numbers 14:1–10

And all the congregation ^alifted up their voice, and cried; and ^bthe people wept that night. ²And all the children of Israel ^cmurmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or ^dwould God we had died in this wilderness! ³And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? ⁴And they said one to another, ^eLet us make a captain, and ^flet us return into Egypt. ⁵Then ^gMoses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. ⁶And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: ⁷And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, ^hThe land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. ⁸If the Lord ⁱdelight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; ^ka land which floweth with milk and honey. ⁹Only ^lrebel not ye against the Lord, ^mneither fear ye the people of the land; for ⁿthey are bread for us: their ^†defence is departed from them, ^oand the Lord is with us: fear them not. ^10pBut all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And ^qthe glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.