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Israel Refuses to Enter Canaan

1 So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people awept that night.  
2 aAnd all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!  
3 Why has the Lord brought us to this land to1 fall by the sword, that our wives and achildren should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”  
4 So they said to one another, a“Let us select a leader and breturn to Egypt.”  
5 Then Moses and Aaron1 fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.  
Book Notes:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Book Notes

Numbers

NUMBERS. This book is so called because it contains an account of the enumeration and arrangement of the Israelites. The early part of it, from the first through the tenth chapters, appears to be a supplement to Leviticus, being occupied with relating the appointment of the Levites to the sacred offices. The journal of the march through the wilderness is then given as far as Numbers 21:20; after which the early incidents of the invasion are narrated. One direct quotation only from this book (Numbers 16:5) is made in the New Testament (II Timothy 2:19); but indirect references to it by the later sacred writers are very numerous.

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