those men who produced the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the <sc>Lordsc>.

<p class="bodytext">The men whom Moses sent to investigate the land, who returned and made the whole community murmur against him by producing<n id="1" /> an evil report about the land,

Then they presented the Israelites with a discouraging<n id="1" /> report of the land they had investigated, saying, &#8220;The land that we passed through<n id="2" /> to investigate is a land that devours<n id="3" /> its inhabitants.<n id="4" /> All the people we saw there<n id="5" /> are of great stature.