Numbers 13:25-32

²⁵After forty days, they returned from examining the land.

²⁶They came back to Moses, Aaron, and all the community of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the community, and showed them the produce from the land.

²⁷They told Moses, “We reached the land to which you sent us. It certainly flows with milk and honey. Here is some produce from it.

²⁸However, the people who make their homes there are strong. The cities are fortified and very large. We also saw descendants of Anak there.

²⁹The Amalekites live in the Negev. The Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites have their homes in the hill country. The Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan River.”

³⁰Then Caleb silenced the people who were before Moses and said, “Let us go up and take possession of the land, for we are certainly able to conquer it.”

³¹But the other men who had gone with him said, “We are not able to attack the people because they are stronger than we are.”

³²So they spread around a discouraging report to the people of Israel about the land that they had examined. They said, “The land that we looked at is a land that eats up its inhabitants. All the people whom we saw there are people of great height.