Deuteronomy 1:22–28

²²“And every one of you came near to me and said, ‘Let us send men before us, and let them search out the land for us, and bring back word to us of the way by which we should go up, and of the cities into which we shall come.’

²³“The plan pleased me well; so ^wI took twelve of your men, one man from each tribe. ^24xAnd they departed and went up into the mountains, and came to the Valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. ²⁵They also took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us; and they brought back word to us, saying, ‘It is a ^ygood land which the Lord our God is giving us.’

^26z“Nevertheless you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God; ²⁷and you ^acomplained in your tents, and said, ‘Because the Lord ^bhates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. ²⁸Where can we go up? Our brethren have ⁹discouraged our hearts, saying, ^c“The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the ^dAnakim there.” ’