Numbers 14:2-4

Revised Geneva Translation

² And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron. And the whole assembly said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or in this wilderness. If only we were dead.

³ “Why has the LORD brought us into this land to fall upon the sword now? Our wives and our children shall be a prey. Would it not be better for us to return into Egypt?”

⁴ And they said to one another, “Let us make a captain and return into Egypt.”