Numbers 13:21–32

²¹So they went up and spied out the land ^pfrom the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, ^qnear Lebo-hamath. ²²They went up into ^mthe Negeb and came to ^rHebron. ^sAhiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the ^tdescendants of Anak, were there. (^uHebron was built seven years before ^uZoan in Egypt.) ²³And ^vthey came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them; they also brought some pomegranates and figs. ²⁴That place was called the Valley of Eshcol,¹ because of the cluster that the people of Israel cut down from there.

Report of the Spies

²⁵At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land. ²⁶And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at ^wKadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. ²⁷And they told him, “We came to the land to which you sent us. It ^xflows with milk and honey, ^yand this is its fruit. ^28zHowever, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there. ^29aThe Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country. ^bAnd the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan.”

³⁰But ^cCaleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.” ^31dThen the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.” ³²So ^ethey brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and ^fall the people that we saw in it are of great height.