22. As they went through the Southern Desert, they came to the town of Hebron, which was seven years older than the Egyptian town of Zoan. In Hebron, they saw the three Anakim clans of Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai.
23-24. When they got to Bunch Valley, they cut off a branch with such a huge bunch of grapes, that it took two men to carry it on a pole. That's why the place was called Bunch Valley. Along with the grapes, they also took back pomegranates and figs.
25. After exploring the land of Canaan for forty days,
26. the twelve men returned to Kadesh in the Paran Desert and told Moses, Aaron, and the people what they had seen. They showed them the fruit
27. and said:Look at this fruit! The land we explored is rich with milk and honey.
28. But the people who live there are strong, and their cities are large and walled. We even saw the three Anakim clans.
29. Besides that, the Amalekites live in the Southern Desert; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites are in the hill country; and the Canaanites live along the Mediterranean Sea and the River Jordan.
30. Caleb calmed down the crowd and said, “Let's go and take the land. I know we can do it!”
31. But the other men replied, “Those people are much too strong for us.”
32. Then they started spreading rumours and saying, “We won't be able to grow anything in that soil. And the people are like giants.
33. In fact, we saw the Nephilim who are the ancestors of the Anakim. They were so big that we felt as small as grasshoppers.”