Numbers 13:30–14:3

³⁰Then ^tCaleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.”

^31uBut 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.” ³²And they ^vgave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and ^wall the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. ³³There we saw the ⁸giants (^xthe descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were ^ylike ⁹grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were ^zin their sight.”

Israel Refuses to Enter Canaan

14So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people ^awept that night. ^2bAnd all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! ³Why has the Lord brought us to this land to ¹fall by the sword, that our wives and ^cchildren should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”