Deuteronomy 1:22–28

²²“All of you came to me and said, ‘Let us send men ahead of us to explore the land for us and bring back a report to us regarding the route by which we should go up and the cities we will come to.’ ²³The plan seemed good to me, and I selected twelve of you, one from each tribe.^{* 24}They set out and went up into the hill country, and when they reached the Wadi Eshcol they spied it out^{* 25}and gathered some of the land’s produce, which they brought down to us. They brought back a report to us and said, ‘It is a good land that the Lord our God is giving us.’^*

²⁶“But you were unwilling to go up. You rebelled against the command of the Lord your God;^{* 27}you grumbled in your tents and said, ‘It is because the Lord hates us that he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to hand us over to the Amorites to destroy us.^{* 28}Where are we headed? Our kindred have made our hearts melt by reporting, “The people are stronger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified up to heaven! We actually saw there the offspring of the Anakim!” ’^*