27 And they told him, "We came to the land to which you sent us. It See Ex. 3:8flows with milk and honey, Deut. 1:25and this is its fruit. 28 Deut. 1:28;9:1,2However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there.
30 But [ch. 14:6,24]Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, "Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it." 31 ch. 32:9;Deut. 1:28;Josh. 14:8Then the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are." 32 So ch. 14:36,37they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, "The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and [Amos 2:9]all the people that we saw in it are of great height. 33 And there we saw the Gen. 6:4Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Gen. 6:4Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves Isa. 40:22like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them."