Numbers 13:30–14:3

³⁰Caleb silenced the people who were complaining against^l Moses, and said, “We should attack now and take the land; we are strong enough to conquer it.”

³¹But the men who had gone with Caleb said, “No, we are not strong enough to attack them; the people there are more powerful than we are.” ³²So they spread a false report among the Israelites about the land they had explored. They said, “That land doesn’t even produce enough to feed the people who live there. Everyone we saw was very tall, ^33*and we even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak. We felt as small as grasshoppers, and that is how we must have looked to them.”

The People Complain

14All night long the people cried out in distress. ²They complained against Moses and Aaron, and said, “It would have been better to die in Egypt or even here in the wilderness! ³Why is the Lord taking us into that land? We will be killed in battle, and our wives and children will be captured. Wouldn’t it be better to go back to Egypt?”