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Why did Yahweh bring us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little children will become plunder; would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?” They said to each other,[a] “Let us appoint a leader, and we will return to Egypt.”

Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before[b] the assembly of the community of the Israelites.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 14:4 Literally “A man said to his brother”
  2. Numbers 14:5 Literally “in the presence of”
  3. Numbers 14:5 Literally “sons/children of Israel”