Numbers 13
1 And the LORD said to Moses,
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Send out for yourself men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each of their fathers’ tribes send one man who is a leader among them.”
Send for thee men, and let them spy the land of the Chananites, which I give to the sons of Israel for a possession; one man for a tribe, thou shalt send them away according to their families, every one of them a prince.
3 So at the consent of the LORD, Moses sent them out from the Wilderness of Paran. All the men were leaders of the Israelites,
And Moses sent them out of the wilderness of Pharan by the word of the Lord; all these [were] the princes of the sons of Israel.
4 and these were their names: From the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur;
And these [are] their names: of the tribe of Ruben, Samuel the son of Zachur.
5 from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori;
Of the tribe of Symeon, Saphat the son of Suri.
6 from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;
Of the tribe of Judah, Chaleb the son of Jephonne.
7 from the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph;
Of the tribe of Issachar, Ilaal the son of Joseph.
8 from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun;
Of the tribe of Ephraim, Ause the son of Naue.
9 from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu;
Of the tribe of Benjamin, Phalti the son of Raphu.
10 from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi;
Of the tribe of Zabulon, Gudiel the son of Sudi.
11 from the tribe of Manasseh (a tribe of Joseph), Gaddi son of Susi;
Of the tribe of Joseph of the sons of Manasse, Gaddi the son of Susi.
12 from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli;
Of the tribe of Dan, Amiel the son of Gamali.
13 from the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael;
Of the tribe of Aser, Sathur the son of Michael.
14 from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vophsi;
Of the tribe of Nephthali, Nabi the son of Sabi.
15 and from the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Machi.
Of the tribe of Gad, Gudiel the son of Macchi.
16 These were the names of the men Moses sent to spy out the land; and Moses gave to Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.
These [are] the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land; and Moses called Ause the son of Naue, Joshua.
17 When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev and into the hill country.
And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Chanaan, and said to them, Go up by this wilderness; and ye shall go up to the mountain,
18 See what the land is like and whether its people are strong or weak, few or many.
and ye shall see the land, what it is, and the people that dwells on it, whether it is strong or weak, or [whether] they are few or many.
19 Is the land where they live good or bad? Are the cities where they dwell open camps or fortifications?
And what the land is on which they dwell, [whether] it is good or bad; and what the cities are wherein these dwell, whether they dwell in walled [cities] or unwalled.
20 Is the soil fertile or unproductive? Are there trees in it or not? Be courageous, and bring back some of the fruit of the land.” (It was the season for the first ripe grapes.)
And what the land is, whether rich or poor; whether there are trees in it or no: and ye shall persevere and take of the fruits of the land: and the days [were] the days of spring, the forerunners of the grape.
21 So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.
And they went up and surveyed the land from the wilderness of Sin to Rhoob, as men go in to Aemath.
22 They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.
And they went up by the wilderness, and departed as far as Chebron; and there [was] Achiman, and Sessi, and Thelami, the progeny of Enach. Now Chebron was built seven years before Tanin of Egypt.
23 When they came to the Valley of Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes, which they carried on a pole between two men. They also took some pomegranates and figs.
And they came to the valley of the cluster and surveyed it; and they cut down thence a bough and one cluster of grapes upon it, and bore it on staves, and [they took] of the pomegranates and the figs.
24 Because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut there, that place was called the Valley of Eshcol.
And they called that place, The valley of the cluster, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
25 After forty days the men returned from spying out the land,
And they returned from thence, having surveyed the land, after forty days.
26 and they went back to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for the whole congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.
And they proceeded and came to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Pharan Cades; and they brought word to them and to all the congregation, and they shewed the fruit of the land:
27 And they gave this account to Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit!
and they reported to him, and said, We came into the land into which thou sentest us, a land flowing with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
28 Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.
Only the nation that dwells upon it is bold, and they have very great and strong walled towns, and we saw there the children of Enach.
29 The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan.”
And Amalec dwells in the land toward the south: and the Chettite and the Evite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwells in the hill country: and the Chananite dwells by the sea, and by the river Jordan.
30 Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “We must go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly conquer it!”
And Chaleb stayed the people from speaking before Moses, and said to him, Nay, but we will go up by all means, and will inherit it, for we shall surely prevail against them.
31 But the men who had gone up with him replied, “We cannot go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are!”
But the men that went up together with him said, We will not go up, for we shall not by any means be able to go up against the nation, for it is much stronger than we.
32 So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature.
And they brought a horror of that land which they surveyed upon the children of Israel, saying, The land which we passed by to survey it, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of extraordinary stature.
33 We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”
And there we saw the giants; and we were before them as locusts, yea even so were we before them.
