^31 (A)But 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.” ³² And they ^(B)gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and ^(C)all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. ³³ There we saw the ^[a]giants (^(D)the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were ^(E)like^[b] grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were ^(F)in their sight.”

²⁸ Where can we go up? Our brethren have ^[a]discouraged our hearts, saying, ^(A)“The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the ^(B)Anakim there.” ’

² a people great and tall, the ^(A)descendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?’