3. Why is the Lord bringing us into this land only to have us fall by the sword? Our wives and little ones will be taken as spoil. Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”
4. So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and go back to Egypt.”
5. But Moses and Aaron fell prostrate before the whole assembled community of the Israelites;
6. while Joshua, son of Nun, and Caleb, son of Jephunneh, who had been among those that reconnoitered the land, tore their garments