23 Agreeing with the proposal, I took twelve men from your number, one from each tribe.
24 They set out into the hill country as far as the Wadi Eshcol, and explored it.
25 Then, taking along some of the fruit of the land, they brought it down to us and reported, “The land the Lord, our God, is giving us is good.”
26 But you refused to go up; you defied the command of the Lord, your God.
27 You set to murmuring in your tents, “Out of hatred for us the Lord has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the power of the Amorites and destroy us.
28 What shall we meet with up there? Our men have made our hearts melt by saying, ‘The people are bigger and taller than we, and their cities are large and fortified to the sky; besides, we saw the Anakim there.’”
29 But I said to you, “Have no dread or fear of them.