³¹ But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.”^(A)

³² And they spread among the Israelites a bad report^(A) about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours^(B) those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size.^(C)

²⁸ Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt in fear. They say, ‘The people are stronger and taller^(A) than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the sky. We even saw the Anakites^(B) there.’”