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All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
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All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!
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Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn`t it be better for us to return into Egypt?
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They said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
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Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
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Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes:
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and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land.
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If Yahweh delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
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Only don`t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear you the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us: don`t fear them.
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But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. The glory of Yahweh appeared in the tent of meeting to all the children of Israel.