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Numbers 14:3

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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?

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  1. Numbers 14:1

    And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

  2. Numbers 14:2

    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!

  3. Numbers 14:4

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

  4. Numbers 14:5

    Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

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