Numbers 13:26–33

²⁶and went and came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the sons of Israel ¹in the wilderness of Paran, at ^aKadesh; and they brought back word to them and to all the congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.

²⁷Thus they recounted to him and said, “We went in to the land where you sent us; and ^ait certainly does flow with milk and honey, and ^bthis is its fruit.

²⁸“Nevertheless, ^athe people who live in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large; and moreover, we saw ^bthe ¹descendants of Anak there.

²⁹“Amalek is living in the land of ^athe Negev and the Hittites and the Jebusites and ^bthe Amorites are living in the hill country, and ^cthe Canaanites are living by the sea and by the side of the Jordan.”

³⁰Then Caleb quieted the people ¹before Moses and said, “We should by all means go up and take possession of it, for we are surely able to overcome it.”

³¹But the men who had gone up with him said, “^aWe are not able to go up against the people, for they are too strong for us.”

³²So they gave out to the sons of Israel ^aa bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land, which we have passed through to spy out on, is ^ba land that devours its ¹inhabitants; and ^call the people whom we saw in it are men of great size.

³³“There also we saw the ^aNephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and ^bwe became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”