Numbers chapter 14 the people rebel then all the congregation raised a loud cry and the people wept that night

and all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron the whole congregation said to them

would that we had died in the land of Egypt or would would that we had died in this wilderness? Why is the

Lord bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a

prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt? And they said to one another,

let us choose a leader and go back to Egypt. Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the people of Israel, and Joshua the son of Nunn and Caleb the son of Jaffana, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes and said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, the land which we pass through to spy it out is an exceedingly good land.

If the Lord delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us a land that flows

with milk and honey. Only do not rebel against the Lord and do not fear the people of the land,

for they are bred for us. Their protection is removed from them, and the Lord is with us.

Do not fear them. Then all the congregation said to stone them with stones, but the glory of the

Lord appeared at the tent of meeting to all the people of Israel. And the Lord said to Moses,

how long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me in spite of all

the signs that I have done among them? I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them,

and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they. Moses intercedes for the people.

But Moses said to the Lord, then the Egyptians will hear of it, for you brought up

this people in your might from among them, and they will tell the inhabitants of this land. They have heard

that you, O Lord, are in the midst of this people. For you, O Lord, are seen face to face, and your cloud

stands over them, and you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day

and in a pillar of fire by night. Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations who

have heard your fame will say it is because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the

land that he swore to give them that he has killed them in the wilderness. And now please let the

power of the Lord be great as you have promised saying, the Lord is slow to anger and abounding

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