^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 ^(B)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 ^(C)all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. ³³ There we saw the ^[a]giants (^(D)the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were ^(E)like^[b] grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were ^(F)in their sight.”

²⁹ The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, ^(A)all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above.