3. Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become plunder; would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?"
4. So they said to one another, "Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt."
5. Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in the presence of all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.
6. Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes;