Numbers 13:31-14:4

New International Version

³¹ But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.”^{(A) 32} And they spread among the Israelites a bad report^(B) about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours^(C) those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size.^{(D) 33} We saw the Nephilim^(E) there (the descendants of Anak^(F) come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers^(G) in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”

The People Rebel

14 That night all the members of the community raised their voices and wept aloud.^{(H) 2} All the Israelites grumbled^(I) against Moses and Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, “If only we had died in Egypt!^(J) Or in this wilderness!^{(K) 3} Why is the Lord bringing us to this land only to let us fall by the sword?^(L) Our wives and children^(M) will be taken as plunder.^(N) Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt?^(O)” ⁴ And they said to each other, “We should choose a leader and go back to Egypt.^(P)”