Numbers 14:3-5

Revised Geneva Translation

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.”

⁵ Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the Congregation of the children of Israel.