² All the Israelites complained about Moses and Aaron,^(A) and the whole community told them, ‘If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!

²⁷ You grumbled in your tents^(A) and said, “The Lord brought us out of the land of Egypt to hand us over to the Amorites in order to destroy us, because he hates us.