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Numbers 14:2-5

2And all the Israelites murmured 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 perished in this wilderness!

3Why has the Lord brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?”

4So they said to one another, “Let’s appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”

5Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground before the whole assembled community of the Israelites.

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