Num 14:3-4 | ESV | STEP | Why is the Lord bringing us into this land , to fall by the sword ? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey . Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt ?

‏ Numbers 14:3-4

3 Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? ^aOur wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?” 4 And they said to one another, ^b“Let us choose a leader and ^cgo back to Egypt.”