Numbers 14:4-12

⁴And they said one to another, Ordain we a duke, or a leader, to us, and turn we again into Egypt.

⁵And when this was heard, Moses and Aaron fell down low to the earth, before all the multitude of the sons of Israel.

⁶And soothly Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, which also compassed the land, rent their clothes,

⁷and they spake thus to all the multitude of the sons of Israel, The land which we compassed is full good;

⁸if the Lord is merciful to us, he shall lead us into it, and he shall give us the land flowing with milk and honey.

⁹Do not ye rebel against the Lord, neither dread ye the people of this land, for we be able to devour them so as bread; all their help hath passed away from them, the Lord is with us, do not ye dread.

¹⁰And when all the multitude cried, and would have oppressed them with stones, the glory of the Lord appeared upon the roof of the bond of peace, while all the sons of Israel saw.

¹¹And the Lord said to Moses, How long shall this people backbite me, or mis-deem me? How long shall they not believe to me, in all the signs which I have done before them?

¹²Therefore I shall smite them with pestilence, and I shall waste them; soothly I shall make thee prince upon a greater folk, and stronger than is this.