A moment in scripture
Numbers 14:2
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And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
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The surrounding passage
- Numbers 14:1
And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
- Numbers 14:3
And 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?
- Numbers 14:4
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.