Caleb silenced the people before Moses, and said, “Let’s go-go up at once, and possess it because we can conquer-conquer it!”
Numbers 13:31 - Y'all Version Bible 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.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But his fellow scouts said, We are not able to go up against the people [of Canaan], for they are stronger than we are. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible But the men who went up with him said, “We can’t go up against the people because they are stronger than we.” Catholic Public Domain Version During these events, Caleb, to restrain the murmuring of the people who rose up against Moses, said, "Let us ascend and possess the land, for we will be able to obtain it." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version In 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. |
Caleb silenced the people before Moses, and said, “Let’s go-go up at once, and possess it because we can conquer-conquer it!”
Why do y’all discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which YHWH has given them?
For when they went up to 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 YHWH had given them.
Where can we go? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we are. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. We have even seen the sons of the Anakim there!’”
Listen, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan today to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than yourself, great cities fortified up to the sky,
Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed YHWH my God.
Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him. You are just a boy, and he has been a man of war since his youth.”