³⁰ Then Caleb^(A) silenced the people before Moses and said, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.”

²³ Then the two men started back. They went down out of the hills, forded the river and came to Joshua son of Nun and told him everything that had happened to them.

²⁴ They said to Joshua, “The Lord has surely given the whole land into our hands;^(A) all the people are melting in fear^(B) because of us.”