25 At the end of ^eforty days they returned from spying out the land. 26 And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of ^fParan, at ^gKadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. 27 And they told him, ^h“We came to the land to which you sent us. It ⁱflows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. 28 However, ^jthe 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. 29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country. And ^kthe Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan.”

30 But Caleb ^lquieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.” 31 Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for ^mthey are stronger than we are.” 32 So they ⁿbrought 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 ^odevours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of ^pgreat height. 33 And there we saw the ^qNephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”