27 This is the report they gave to Moses: "We went and explored the country you sent us to, and it is definitely very productive, as if it was flowing with milk and honey. Just look at some of its fruit! 28 But the people living there are strong, and their towns are big and have defensive walls. We also saw some descendants of Anak there.
30 Then Caleb asked for quiet as the people stood before Moses and told them, "Let’s go and take over the land. We can conquer the country, no doubt about it!"
31 But the men who had gone with him disagreed. "We can’t go and fight these people! They’re much stronger than us!" 32 They spread a negative report among the Israelites about the country they had explored. They told people, "The country we explored destroys the people that live there. Plus everyone we saw was really big! 33 We even saw giants there—people descended from Anak the giant! Compared to them we looked like grasshoppers, and we must have looked like that to them too!"