²²“Then all of you approached me, and you said, ‘Let us send men before us,ⁿ and let them explore the land for us, and let them bring back a report^o to us concerning the way that we should take^p and concerning the cities that we shall come to.’ ²³The plan was good in my opinion,^q and so I took from among you twelve men, one from each tribe.^r ²⁴And they set out^s and went up into the hill country,^t and they went up to the valley^u of Eshcol, and they spied out the land. ²⁵They took in their hands^v some of the fruit^w of the land, and they brought it down to us, and they brought to us back a report,^x and they said, ‘The land that Yahweh our God is giving to us is good.’ ²⁶But you were not willing to go up, and you rebelled against the command^y of Yahweh your God. ²⁷And you grumbled in your tents, and you said, ‘Because of the hatred of Yahweh toward us he has brought us out from the land of Egypt to give us into the hand of the Amorites^z to destroy us. ²⁸Where can we go up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt,^a saying,^b “The people are greater^c and taller than we are,^d and there are great fortified cities reaching up to heaven, and we saw the sons of the Anakites living there.” ’

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Footnotes

nLiterally “before our faces” or “ahead of us”
oLiterally “a word”
pLiterally “we should go up by it”
qLiterally “in my eyes”
rLiterally “man one from the tribe”
sLiterally “turned”
tLiterally “went up toward the hill country mountain”
uOr “wadi”
vHebrew “hand”
wLiterally “from the fruit”
xLiterally “a word”
yLiterally “mouth”
zHebrew “Amorite”
aLiterally “caused to melt our hearts”
bLiterally “to say”
cOr “bigger”
dHebrew “than us”