Numbers 14:1-4
The People Rebel
1Then all the congregation raised a loud cry, and the people awept that night. 2And all the people of Israel bgrumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or cwould that we had died in this wilderness! 3Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? dOur wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?” 4And they said to one another, e“Let us choose a leader and fgo back to Egypt.”Numbers 14:27-29
27“How long shall gthis wicked congregation grumble against me? hI have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me. 28Say to them, i‘As I live, declares the Lord, jwhat you have said in my hearing I will do to you: 29 kyour dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and lof all your number, listed in the census mfrom twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me,Deuteronomy 1:26-27
26“Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God. 27And nyou murmured in your tents and said, ‘Because the Lord ohated us he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, pto give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
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