3 Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
Numbers 14:3
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2 Esdras 1:17–19
17 Where are the benefits that I have given you? When you were hungry and thirsty in the wilderness, didn’t you cry to me, (WEB) 18 saying, ‘Why have you brought us into this wilderness to kill us? It would have been better for us to have served the Egyptians than to die… (WEB) 19 … (WEB)
Exodus 14:11–13
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Numbers 20:3–5
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Deuteronomy 1:26–28
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Exodus 16:2–4
2 And there in the desert they all grumbled against Moses and Aaron. 3 “If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole… 4 …
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