HOW LONG?

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And all the congregation lifted up their voice, 

and cried; and the people wept that night.

And all the children of Israel murmured 

against Moses and against Aaron: 

and the whole congregation said 

unto them, Would God that we 

had died in the land of Egypt! 

or would God we had died in this 

wilderness! And wherefore hath 

the LORD brought us unto this land, 

to fall by the sword, that our 

wives and our children should be 

a prey? were it not better for us 

to return into Egypt?  And they said 

one to another, Let us make 

a captain, and let us return into 

Egypt. Then Moses and Aaron fell on 

their faces before all the assembly 

of the congregation of the children 

of Israel.  And Joshua the son of Nun, 

and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which 

were of them that searched the land, rent 

their clothes: And they spake unto 

all the company of the children of Israel, 

saying, The land, which we passed 

through to search it, is an exceeding 

good land.  If the LORD delight in us, 

then he will bring us into this land, and 

give it us; a land which floweth with 

milk and honey.  Only rebel not ye 

against the LORD, neither fear ye the 

people of the land; for they are bread for 

us: their defence is departed from them, 

and the LORD is with us: fear them not.

But all the congregation bade stone 

them with stones. And the glory of the 

LORD appeared in the tabernacle of 

the congregation before all the children 

of Israel. And the LORD said unto Moses,

How long will this people provoke me? 

and how long will it be ere they believe 

me, for all the signs which I have shewed 

among them?

Numbers 14:1-11