^{28 Ref} But the people living in the land are strong, and the towns are walled and very great; further, we saw the children of Anak there.

^{29 Ref} And the Amalekites are in the South; and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites are living in the hill-country; and the Canaanites by the sea and by the side of Jordan.

^{30 Ref} Then Caleb made signs to the people to keep quiet, and said to Moses, Let us go up straight away and take this land; for we are well able to overcome it.

^{31 Ref} 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.

^{32 Ref} And they gave the children of Israel a bad account of the land they had been to see, saying, This land through which we went is a land causing destruction to those living in it; and all the people we saw there are men of more than common size.

^{33 Ref} There we saw those great men, the sons of Anak, offspring of the Nephilim: and we seemed to ourselves no more than insects, and so we seemed to them.