BRAGADAYJAH 428
The Rebellious Unbelief of
Israel.
Upon hearing the reports of
giants, the people of the congregation of Israel began to cry and lament and
spent the whole night in weeping. And as
was their wont, they murmured against Moses and Aaron and in their complaint
said that they wished to God they had died in the land of Egypt, or while they
were in the wilderness.
Of course their murmurings
were also directed against the Lord their God when they asked why the Lord had brought
them to this land in the first place to die by the sword so that their wives
and children should fall prey unto the enemy. In addition they were not afraid
to express the ultimate ingratitude by saying once again, that they were
actually better off in Egypt.
And so they began to plot to
make themselves a captain to lead them back to Egypt.
And when Moses and Aaron
heard of the rebellion of the children of Israel they fell on their faces and
wept, joined by Joshua, the son of Nun and Caleb one of those who had searched
the land, and together they wept and tore their clothes in the presence of all
the congregation of the people.
And they spoke unto all the
company of the children of Israel and told them that the land is a very good
land; it is a land flowing with milk and honey; therefore do not rebel against
the Lord nor fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us; their
defenses are already departed from them; therefore fear them not.
Notwithstanding, the children
of Israel gathered unto themselves stones to stone Moses and Aaron and Joshua
and Caleb; but the glory of the Lord appeared unto them.
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