"Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said: Let us go up and take possession of it because we can do more than them. But the men who went up with him said: We can not go up against that people because they are stronger than we are. And they spoke evil among the children of Israel, of the land that they had recognized saying: The land through which we passed to recognize it, is a land that swallows up its inhabitants; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature. "Numbers 13: 30-32