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Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses, saying, “Let us go up and occupy it, for we are well able to conquer it.”

We even saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we seemed liked grasshoppers both to ourselves and to them.”

But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against these people, because they are stronger than we are!”

Then they presented the Israelites with a discouraging report of the land they had investigated, saying, “The land that we passed through to investigate is a land that devours its inhabitants. All the people we saw there are of great stature.

They told Moses, “We went to the land where you sent us. It is indeed flowing with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

But the inhabitants are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.

The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.”

They came back to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community of the Israelites in the wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They reported to the whole community and showed the fruit of the land.