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Numbers 13:31 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" 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.” "
Numbers 13:31
Verse in Context
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29 Amalek dwells in the land of the South. The Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hill country. The Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along the side of the Jordan.”
30 Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, “Let’s go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it!”
31 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.”
32 They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.
33 There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim. We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”
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Numbers 13:1
"The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,"
Numbers 13:2
"“Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince among them.”"
Numbers 13:3
"Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of the LORD. All of them were men who were heads of the children of Israel."
Numbers 13:4
"These were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur."
Numbers 13:5
"Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori."
Numbers 13:6
"Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh."
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