Parashas Shelach · Side page (TT silent)
And all the children of Israel complained against Moshe and against Aharon, and the whole congregation said to them: If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness.
Rashi: לוּ מַתְנוּ — would that we had died (Targum).
English: “If only we had died” — would that we had died.
Complaint after the report.
TT silent; the wish for death in Egypt or in the wilderness is the voice of a generation that would rather not inherit the Land than risk the sword.