Numbers 13:31
What does Numbers 13:31 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 13:31 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
KJV
King James Version · 1611But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949But 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.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And the men who have gone up with him said, `We are not able to go up against the people, for it <FI>is<Fi> stronger than we;'
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752In the mean time Caleb, to still the murmuring of the people that rose against Moses, said: Let us go up and possess the land, for we shall be able to conquer it.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.
Context
v.30And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
v.31This passage
v.32And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 1:28
Whither are we going up? our brethren have made our heart to melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.
- Hebrews 3:19
And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.
- Deuteronomy 9:1
Hear, O Israel: thou art to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,
- Numbers 32:9
For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which Jehovah had given them.
- Joshua 14:8
Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Jehovah my God.
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