Wherefore now hath the Lord brought us into this land to fall upon the sword? our wives and our children shall be [a]a prey: were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

And they said one to another, Let us make a captain and return into Egypt.

Then Moses and Aaron [b]fell on their faces before all the assembly of the Congregation of the children of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 14:3 To our enemies the Canaanites.
  2. Numbers 14:5 Lamenting the people, and praying for them.

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