Numbers 13:27–14:4

27  And they told him, and said, We came to the land to which thou didst send us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. 28  Only, the people are strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, very great; moreover we saw the children of Anak there. 29  Amalek dwells in the land of the south; and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill-country; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the side of the Jordan. 30  And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up boldly and possess it, for we are well able to do it. 31  But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we. 32  And they brought to the children of Israel an evil report of the land which they had searched out, saying, The land, which we have passed through to search it out, is a land that eateth up its inhabitants; and all the people that we have seen in it are men of great stature; 33  and there have we seen giants—the sons of Anak are of the giants—and we were in our sight as grasshoppers, and so we were also in their sight.

Chapter 14

1  And the whole assembly lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. 2  And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and the whole assembly said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or in this wilderness would that we had died! 3  And why is Jehovah bringing us to this land that we may fall by the sword, that our wives and our little ones may become a prey? Is it not better for us to return to Egypt? 4  And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return to Egypt.