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The Reports of the Spies

Numbers 13:31

In 11 translations

BSB
But the men who had gone up with him replied, “We cannot go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are!”
KJV
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.
WEB
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.”
ASV
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.
LSV
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”;
YLT
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;'
DBY
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.
DRC13:32
But the others, that had been with him, said: No, we are not able to go up to this people, because they are stronger than we.
GNV13:32
But the men, that went vp with him, saide, we be not able to goe vp against the people: for they are stronger then we.
JPS
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.'
LXXE
But the men that went up together with him said, We will not go up, for we shall not by any means be able to go up against the nation, for it is much stronger than we.Gr. do not.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וְהָ֨אֲנָשִׁ֜ים אֲשֶׁר־עָל֤וּ עִמּוֹ֙ אָֽמְר֔וּ לֹ֥א נוּכַ֖ל לַעֲל֣וֹת אֶל־הָעָ֑ם כִּֽי־חָזָ֥ק ה֖וּא מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ οἱ ἄνθρωποι οἱ συναναβάντες μετʼ αὐτοῦ, εἶπαν, οὐκ ἀναβαίνομεν, ὅτι οὐ μὴ δυνώμεθα ἀναβῆναι πρὸς τὸ ἔθνος, ὅτι ἰσχυρότερον ἡμῶν ἐστι μᾶλλον.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Deuteronomy 1:28Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”
  • Joshua 14:8Although my brothers who went with me made the hearts of the people melt with fear, I remained loyal to the LORD my God.
  • Hebrews 3:19So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.
  • Deuteronomy 9:1Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.
  • Numbers 32:9For when your fathers went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land that the LORD had given them.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 13:32 in some Bibles
  • 13:31 in most Bibles
  • Mapping unverified: STEPBible TVTMS has rules for this verse in this edition's tradition that would place it elsewhere, but their tests did not match this edition.

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