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.
6 But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes;
7 and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying: a“The land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land.
8 If the Lord adelights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, b‘a land which flows with milk and honey.’
9 Only ado not rebel against the Lord, bnor fear the people of the land, for cthey are our bread; their protection has departed from them, dand the Lord is with us. Do not fear them.”
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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