Deuteronomy 1:26-28

New Catholic Bible

²⁶ The People Rebel. But you were unwilling to go up. You defied the command of the Lord, your God. ²⁷ You complained in your tents and said, “It is because the Lord hates us that he brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites so they might destroy us. ²⁸ Why should we go up? Our brothers have frightened us by saying, ‘The people are larger and taller than we are. The cities have great walls that reach up into the heavens. Moreover, there are the sons of the Anakim,^[a] we have seen them there.’ ”