Numbers 13:21–32

²¹So they went up, and searched the land ^lfrom the wilderness of Zin unto ^mRehob, ⁿas men come to Hamath. ²²And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where ^oAhiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now ^pHebron was built seven years before ^qZoan in Egypt.) ^23rAnd they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a ^sstaff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs. ²⁴The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence. ²⁵And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.

²⁶And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to ^tKadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land. ²⁷And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with ^umilk and honey; ^xand this is the fruit of it. ²⁸Nevertheless ^ythe people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are ^ywalled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. ^29zThe Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and ^athe Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan. ³⁰And ^bCaleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. ^31cBut the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. ³²And they brought up ^dan evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and ^eall the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.