13:1 1 The Lord spoke 2 to Moses: 13:2 “Send out men to investigate 3 the land of Canaan, which I am giving 4 to the Israelites. You are to send one man from each ancestral tribe, 5 each one a leader among them.”
13:26 They came back 6 to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community of the Israelites in the wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. 7 They reported 8 to the whole community and showed the fruit of the land. 13:27 They told Moses, 9 “We went to the land where you sent us. 10 It is indeed flowing with milk and honey, 11 and this is its fruit. 13:28 But 12 the inhabitants 13 are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there. 13:29 The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the banks 14 of the Jordan.” 15
13:30 Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses, saying, “Let us go up 16 and occupy it, 17 for we are well able to conquer it.” 18 13:31 But the men 19 who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against these people, because they are stronger than we are!” 13:32 Then they presented the Israelites with a discouraging 20 report of the land they had investigated, saying, “The land that we passed through 21 to investigate is a land that devours 22 its inhabitants. 23 All the people we saw there 24 are of great stature. 13:33 We even saw the Nephilim 25 there (the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we seemed liked grasshoppers both to ourselves 26 and to them.” 27