²⁶The men went back to Moses, Aaron, and the entire Israelite community in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for them and the whole community, and they showed them the fruit of the land.^b ²⁷They reported to Moses, “We went into the land where you sent us. Indeed it is flowing with milk and honey,^c and here is some of its fruit. ²⁸However, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified.^d We also saw the descendants of Anak^e there. ²⁹The Amalekites^f are living in the land of the Negev; the Hethites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan.”

³⁰Then Caleb^g quieted the people in the presence of Moses and said, “Let’s go up now and take possession of the land because we can certainly conquer it!”

³¹But the men who had gone up with him responded, “We can’t attack the people because they are stronger than we are!” ³²So they gave a negative report to the Israelites about the land they had scouted: “The land we passed through to explore is one that devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw in it are men of great size. ³³We even saw the Nephilim^h there—the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim!ⁱ To ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and we must have seemed the same to them.”

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Cross references

b Nm 32:9; Dt 1:24–25
c Ex 3:8; Lv 20:24; Nm 14:8; 16:13–14
d Dt 1:28; 3:5; 9:1; Jos 14:12
e Nm 13:22,33; Dt 1:28; 2:10–11,21
f Ex 17:8–16; Nm 14:25,43,45; Dt 25:17–19
g Nm 14:6,24,30,38; 26:65
h Gn 6:4
i Dt 2:10–11,20–21