²⁸ Where are we going up? ^(A)Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, ^(B)“The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen ^(C)the sons of the Anakim there.”’

^31 (A)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.” ³² So ^(B)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 ^(C)all the people that we saw in it are of great height. ³³ And there we saw the ^(D)Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the ^(E)Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves ^(F)like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”