Scouting Out Canaan

13 The Lord spoke to Moses: “Send men to scout out the land of Canaan(A) I am giving to the Israelites. Send one man who is a leader among them from each of their ancestral tribes.” Moses sent them from the Wilderness of Paran at the Lord’s command. All the men were leaders in Israel.(B)

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32 So they gave a negative report to the Israelites about the land they had scouted: “The land we passed through to explore is one that devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw in it are men of great size. 33 We even saw the Nephilim[a](A) there—the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim!(B) To ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and we must have seemed the same to them.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 13:33 Possibly means fallen ones; traditionally, “giants”; Gn 6:4

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