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Numbers 14:3 (KJV)

“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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Numbers 14 — surrounding verses

1

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

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

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?

4

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

5

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

6

And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:

7

And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.

8

If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.

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