Numbers 13:26-33
1599 Geneva Bible
26 Then after forty days they turned again from searching of the land.
27 And they went and came to Moses and to Aaron, and unto all the Congregation of the children of Israel, in the wilderness of [a]Paran, to Kadesh, and brought to them, and to all the Congregation tidings, and showed them the fruit of the land.
28 And they told [b]him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou hast sent us, and surely it floweth with (A)milk and honey: and here is of the fruit of it.
29 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled and exceeding great: and moreover, we saw the [c]sons of Anak there.
30 The Amalekites dwell in the South country, and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains, and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coasts of Jordan.
31 Then Caleb stilled the people [d]before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it: for undoubtedly we shall overcome it.
32 But the men that went up with him, said, We be not able to go up against the people: for they are stronger than we.
33 So they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched for the children of Israel, saying, The land which we have gone through to search it out, is a land that [e]eateth up the inhabitants thereof: for all the people that we saw in it, are men of great stature.
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- Numbers 13:27 Called also Kadesh Barnea.
- Numbers 13:28 That is, Moses.
- Numbers 13:29 Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, whom Caleb slew afterward, Josh. 11:21, 22.
- Numbers 13:31 Or, murmuring against Moses.
- Numbers 13:33 The giants were so cruel, that they spoiled and killed one another and those that came to them.
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