Numbers 13:31–14:4

31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “aWe are not able to go up against the people, for they are too strong for us.”

32 So they gave out to the sons of Israel aa bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone, in spying it out, is ba land that devours its 1inhabitants; and call the people whom we saw in it are men of great size.

33 “There also we saw the aNephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and bwe became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”

Chapter 14

The People Rebel

1 Then all the congregation 1lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept 2that night.

2 All the sons of Israel agrumbled against Moses and Aaron; and the whole congregation said to them, “bWould that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!

3 “Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, ato fall by the sword? bOur wives and our little ones will become plunder; would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”

4 So they said to one another, “aLet us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”