Numbers 13:27-14:4
They told him, and said,“ We came to the land where you sent us. Surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.Amalek dwells in the land of the South. The Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hill country. The Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along the side of the Jordan.”Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said,“ Let’s go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it!”But the men who went up with him said,“ We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying,“ The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim. We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them,“ We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”They said to one another,“ Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”
