⁸ I will bring you to the land that I swore^[a](A) to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you as a possession. I am the Lord.”

³ Why is the Lord bringing us into this land to die by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder.^(A) Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt?” ^(B)

⁸ If the Lord is pleased with us, he will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey,^(A) and give it to us.

¹⁵ However, I swore to them^(A) in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land I had given them—the most beautiful of all lands, flowing with milk and honey—