Moses · Issue #16 of 19
Giants In The Land
Numbers 13:25–33, Numbers 14:1–10 · World English Bible
Numbers 13:25
They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
Numbers 13:26
They went and came to Moses, to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them and to all the congregation. They showed them the fruit of the land.
Numbers 13:27
They told him, and said,
We came to the land where you sent us. Surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
Numbers 13:28
However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.
Numbers 13:29
Amalek dwells in the land of the South. The Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hill country. The Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along the side of the Jordan.”
Numbers 13:30
Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said,
Let’s go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it!
Numbers 13:31
But the men who went up with him said,
We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
Numbers 13:32
They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying,
The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.
Numbers 13:33
There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim. We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”
Numbers 14:1
All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
Numbers 14:2
All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them,
We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!
Numbers 14:3
Why does the LORD bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”
Numbers 14:4
They said to one another,
Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.
Numbers 14:5
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
Numbers 14:6
Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.
Numbers 14:7
They spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying,
The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.
Numbers 14:8
If the LORD delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us: a land which flows with milk and honey.
Numbers 14:9
Only don’t rebel against the LORD, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and the LORD is with us. Don’t fear them.”
Numbers 14:10
But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. The LORD’s glory appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.
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