31 Maar die manne wat saam met hom opgetrek het, het gesê: Ons kan nie teen die volk optrek nie, want hulle is sterker as ons.

32 So het hulle dan slegte gerugte onder die kinders van Israel versprei oor die land wat hulle verken het, deur te sê: Die land wat ons deurgetrek het om dit te verken, is 'n land wat sy inwoners verteer; en al die mense wat ons daarin gesien het, is groot manne.

33 Ons het daar ook die reuse gesien, die kinders van Enak, van die reuse afkomstig; en ons was soos sprinkane in ons oë; so was ons ook in hulle oë.

31 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." 32 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. 33 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."