Numbers 13:20-28

²⁰whether the land is fat, either barren, whether it is full of woods, either without trees. Be ye comforted, and bring ye to us of the fruits of that land. Soothly then the time was, when the grapes first ripe might be eaten.

²¹And when they had gone up, they espied the land, from the desert of Zin till to Rehob, as men enter to Hamath.

²²And they went up to the south coast, and came into Hebron, where Ahiman, and Sheshai, and Talmai, the sons of Anak, were; for Hebron was made seven years before Tanis, the city of Egypt.

²³And they went to the strand or stream of the cluster, and they cutted down a scion with his grapes, which two men bare with a bearing staff; also they took of the pomegranates, and of the figs of that place,

²⁴which is called Nahal-eshcol, that is, the strand of grapes, or the strand of cluster, for the sons of Israel bare a cluster from thence.

²⁵And the spyers of the land turned again, when they had compassed all the country, after forty days

²⁶they came to Moses and Aaron, and to all the company of the sons of Israel, into the desert of Paran, which is in Kadesh. And the spyers spake to them, and showed the fruits of the land to all the multitude,

²⁷and they told, and said, We came to the land, to which thou sentest us, which land truly floweth with milk and honey, as it may be known by these fruits;

²⁸but it hath most strong dwellers, and great cities, and walled; we saw there the kindred of Anakim, that is, giants;