Report of the Spies
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At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land.
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And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at w Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
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And they told him, "We came to the land to which you sent us. It x flows with milk and honey, y and this is its fruit.
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z However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there.
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a The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country. b And the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan."
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But c Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, "Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it."
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d 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."
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So e they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, "The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and f all the people that we saw in it are of great height.
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And there we saw the g Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the g Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves h like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them."
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Cross References
Numbers 20:1
And the people of Israel, the whole congregatio...
Numbers 20:16
And when we cried to the Lord, he heard our voi...
Numbers 32:8
Your fathers did this, when I sent them from Ka...
Numbers 33:36
And they set out from Ezion-geber and camped in...
Deuteronomy 1:19
Then we set out from Horeb and went through all...
Joshua 14:6 - 7
Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilg...
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Cross References
Exodus 3:8
And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:25
And they took in their hands some of the fruit of the land and brought it down to us, and brought us word again and said, 'It is a good land that the Lord our God is giving us.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:28
Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, "The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there."
Deuteronomy 9:1 - 2
Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves, cities great and fortified up to heaven.
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Cross References
Numbers 14:43
For there the Amalekites and the Canaanites are facing you, and you shall fall by the sword. Because you have turned back from following the Lord, the Lord will not be with you.
Exodus 17:8
Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim.
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Cross References
Numbers 14:25
Now, since the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valleys, turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
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Cross References
Numbers 14:6
And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes
Numbers 14:24
But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.
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Cross References
Numbers 32:9
For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the people of Israel from going into the land that the Lord had given them.
Deuteronomy 1:28
Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, "The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.
Joshua 14:8
But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the Lord my God.
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Cross References
Numbers 14:36 - 37
And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing up a bad report about the land -
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Cross References
Amos 2:9
Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars and who was as strong as the oaks; I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.
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Cross References
Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
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Cross References
Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
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Cross References
Isaiah 40:22
It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in.
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