Numbers 13:21–33

²¹So they went up and spied out the land ^hfrom the Wilderness of Zin as far as ⁱRehob, near the entrance of ^jHamath. ²²And they went up through the South and came to ^kHebron; Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of ^lAnak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) ^23mThen they came to the ⁵Valley of Eshcol, and there cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes; they carried it between two of them on a pole. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs. ²⁴The place was called the Valley of ⁶Eshcol, because of the cluster which the men of Israel cut down there. ²⁵And they returned from spying out the land after forty days.

²⁶Now they departed and came back to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran, at ⁿKadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. ²⁷Then they told him, and said: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly ⁷flows with ^omilk and honey, ^pand this is its fruit. ²⁸Nevertheless the ^qpeople who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of ^rAnak there. ^29sThe Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.”

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.”