¹⁷ When Moses sent them to explore Canaan,^(A) he said, “Go up through the Negev^(B) and on into the hill country.^(C)

³² And they spread among the Israelites a bad report^(A) about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours^(B) those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size.^{(C) 33} We saw the Nephilim^(D) there (the descendants of Anak^(E) come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers^(F) in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”

¹⁰ And do not grumble, as some of them did^(A)—and were killed^(B) by the destroying angel.^(C)