^31 (A)But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.”

³² And they ^(A)gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and ^(B)all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature.

²⁸ Where can we go up? Our brethren have ^[a]discouraged our hearts, saying, ^(A)“The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the ^(B)Anakim there.” ’