Numbers 14:4-11

⁴And they said one to another: Let us appoint a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

⁵And when Moses and Aaron heard this, they fell down flat upon the ground before the multitude of the children of Israel.

⁶But Josue the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephone, who themselves also had viewed the land, rent their garments,

⁷And said to all the multitude of the children of Israel: The land which we have gone round is very good:

⁸If the Lord be favourable, he will bring us into it, and give us a land flowing with milk and honey.

⁹Be not rebellious against the Lord: and fear ye not the people of this land, for we are able to eat them up as bread. All aid is gone from them: the Lord is with us, fear ye not.

¹⁰And when all the multitude cried out, and would have stoned them, the glory of the Lord appeared over the tabernacle of the covenant to all the children of Israel.

¹¹And the Lord said to Moses: How long will this people detract me? how long will they not believe me for all the signs that I have wrought before them?