“And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.”
And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, 'The land we explored devours those who live in it, and all the people we saw there are of great size' — the language 'devours those who live in it' (eretz ochelet yoshvehah) animizes the land itself as a predatory force; the report becomes a narrative of doom, the land is not a gift but a threat.
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