Popular Bible Verses from Numbers 13

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As the people stood in front of Moses, Caleb told them to be quiet. He said, ‘We should go into the land and take it for ourselves. We will certainly be able to do it!’

We also saw descendants of the Nephilites there. And we felt like very small insects when we looked at them. And we seemed like very small insects to them too.’ (The descendants of Anak are also descendants of the Nephilites.)

But the men who had gone into Canaan with Caleb said, ‘These people are stronger than we are. So we cannot go and fight against them.’

Those men gave a bad report to the Israelites about the land that they had explored. They said, ‘We went through the whole land and we explored it. The land seems to eat the people who live there! All the people that we saw there were very big and strong.

They said to Moses, ‘We went to look at the land where you sent us. It is certainly a land where there is plenty of food and drink, enough for everyone. This is some of its fruit.

But the people who live in the land are strong. Their towns are very big, and strong walls keep them safe. We also saw some descendants of Anak there.

The Amalekites are living in the Negev, the land in the south of the country. The Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites live in the hill country. The Canaanites live by the sea and beside the edge of the Jordan River.’

The men returned to Kadesh in the Paran Desert. They brought their message to Moses and Aaron and to all the Israelites there. They told them all about the land of Canaan and they showed its fruit to them.