Numbers 13:31 - Forerunner Commentary

Numbers 13:31

29 ^aThe Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.”

30 Then ^aCaleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.”

31 ^aBut 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 ^aAnd they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and ^ball the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature.

33 There we saw the giants (^athe descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were ^blike grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were ^cin their sight.”

Verse Comparison: Numbers 13:31

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American Standard Version
But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.

Amplified® Bible
But his fellow scouts said, We are not able to go up against the people [of Canaan], for they are stronger than we are.

Contemporary English Version
But the other men replied, "Those people are much too strong for us."

Darby English Version
But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.

Good News Bible
But the men who had gone with Caleb said, "No, we are not strong enough to attack them; the people there are more powerful than we are."

King James Version
But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.

New American Standard Bible
But the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are too strong for us."

New International Version
But the men who had gone up with him said, "We can't attack those people; they are stronger than we are."

New King James Version
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.”

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
But the men who had gone up with him said, " We cannot go up against the people, for they have too much strength for us."

Revised Standard Version
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."

Young's Literal Translation
And the men who have gone up with him said, `We are not able to go up against the people, for it `is' stronger than we;'

New English Translation
But the men¹ who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against these people, because they are stronger than we are!”

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