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Numbers 13:31
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KJ21
But the men who went up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.”
ASV
But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
AMP
But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people [of Canaan], for they are too strong for us.”
AMPC
But his fellow scouts said, We are not able to go up against the people [of Canaan], for they are stronger than we are.
BRG
But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
CSB
But the men who had gone up with him responded, “We can’t attack the people because they are stronger than we are!”
CSBA
But the men who had gone up with him responded, ‘We can’t attack the people because they are stronger than we are! ’
CEB
But the men who went up with him said, “We can’t go up against the people because they are stronger than we.”
CJB
But the men who had gone with him said, “We can’t attack those people, because they are stronger than we are”;
CEV
But the other men replied, “Those people are much too strong for us.”
DARBY
But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.
DRA
In the mean time Caleb, to still the murmuring of the people that rose against Moses, said: Let us go up and possess the land, for we shall be able to conquer it.
ERV
But the men who had gone with him said, “We cannot fight those people! They are much stronger than we are.”
EASY
But the men who had gone into Canaan with him said, ‘These people are stronger than we are. So we cannot go and fight against them.’
EHV
But the men who had gone up with Caleb said, “We are not able to go up against the people, because they are stronger than we are.”
ESV
Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.”
ESVUK
Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.”
EXB
But the men who had gone with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.”
GNV
Then Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it: for undoubtedly we shall overcome it.
GW
But the men who had gone with him said, “We can’t attack those people! They’re too strong for us!”
GNT
But the men who had gone with Caleb said, “No, we are not strong enough to attack them; the people there are more powerful than we are.”
HCSB
But the men who had gone up with him responded, “We can’t go up against the people because they are stronger than we are!”
ICB
But the men who had gone with him said, “We can’t attack those people. They are stronger than we are.”
ISV
“We can’t attack those people,” the men who were with him said, “because they’re too strong compared to us.”
JUB
But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against that people, for they are stronger than we.
KJV
But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
AKJV
But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
LSB
But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are too strong for us.”
LEB
And the men who went up with him said, “We are not able to go up to the people because they are stronger than us.”
TLB
“Not against people as strong as they are!” the other spies said. “They would crush us!”
MSG
But the others said, “We can’t attack those people; they’re way stronger than we are.” They spread scary rumors among the People of Israel. They said, “We scouted out the land from one end to the other—it’s a land that swallows people whole. Everybody we saw was huge. Why, we even saw the Nephilim giants (the Anak giants come from the Nephilim). Alongside them we felt like grasshoppers. And they looked down on us as if we were grasshoppers.” * * *
MEV
But the men that went up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people because they are stronger than we.”
NOG
But the men who had gone with him said, “We can’t attack those people! They’re too strong for us!”
NABRE
But the men who had gone up with him said, “We cannot attack these people; they are too strong for us.”
NASB
But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, because they are too strong for us.”
NASB1995
But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are too strong for us.”
NCB
But the men who had gone up with him said, “We will not be able to go up against the people for they are surely stronger than we are.”
NCV
But the men who had gone with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.”
NET
But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against these people, because they are stronger than we are!”
NIRV
But the men who had gone up with him spoke. They said, “We can’t attack those people. They are stronger than we are.”
NIV
But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.”
NIVUK
But the men who had gone up with him said, ‘We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.’
NKJV
But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.”
NLV
But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go against the people. They are too strong for us.”
NLT
But the other men who had explored the land with him disagreed. “We can’t go up against them! They are stronger than we are!”
NRSVA
Then the men who had gone up with him said, ‘We are not able to go up against this people, for they are stronger than we are.’
NRSVACE
Then the men who had gone up with him said, ‘We are not able to go up against this people, for they are stronger than we are.’
NRSVCE
Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against this people, for they are stronger than we.”
NRSVUE
Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against this people, for they are stronger than we.”
OJB
But the anashim that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people; for they are chazak (stronger) than we.
RGT
Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and possess it, for undoubtedly we shall overcome it.”
RSV
Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”
RSVCE
Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”
TLV
But the men who had gone up with him said, “We cannot attack these people, because they are stronger than we.”
VOICE
Other Scouts: No way. We can’t do it. The people who are already there are too strong for us.
WEB
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.”
WYC
Soothly the other spyers, that were with him, said, We be not able to go up to this people, for it is stronger than we. (But the other spies who went with him said, We shall not be able to go up against these people, for they all be stronger than us!)
YLT
And the men who have gone up with him said, `We are not able to go up against the people, for it [is] stronger than we;'
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