Now the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation complain against him by bringing a bad report of the land,

those very men who brought the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

'Where can we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts, saying, "The people [are] greater and taller than we; the cities [are] great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there." '

"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in [yourselves,] nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.

"Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land [are] strong; the cities [are] fortified [and] very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.

'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because they say to you, 'You devour men and bereave your nation [of children,']

" Yet [it was] I [who] destroyed the Amorite before them, Whose height [was] like the height of the cedars, And he [was as] strong as the oaks; Yet I destroyed his fruit above And his roots beneath.

Yet again there was war at Gath, where there was a man of [great] stature, who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; and he also was born to the giant.

Yet again there was war at Gath, where there was a man of [great] stature, with twenty-four fingers and toes, six [on each hand] and six [on each foot;] and he also was born to the giant.