Numbers 13
1 And the LORD said to Moses,
And the Lord spoke unto 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 thou out some men that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: one man each of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send, every one who is a prince among them.
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 from the wilderness of Paran by the order of the Lord: they all were men, [who] were heads of the children 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 Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
5 from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori;
Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Chori.
6 from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;
Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Yephunneh.
7 from the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph;
Of the tribe of Issachar, Yigal the son of Joseph.
8 from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun;
Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea, the son of Nun.
9 from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu;
Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
10 from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi;
Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
11 from the tribe of Manasseh (a tribe of Joseph), Gaddi son of Susi;
Of the tribe of Joseph, of the tribe of Menasseh, Gaddi the son of Sussi.
12 from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli;
Of the tribe of Dan, 'Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
13 from the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael;
Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
14 from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vophsi;
Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nachbi the son of Vophsi.
15 and from the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Machi.
Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
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 Hoshea the son of Nun, Joshua [[Yehoshua']].
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 Canaan, and he said unto them, Go you up this way at the south side, and go up into the mountain;
18 See what the land is like and whether its people are strong or weak, few or many.
And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwell therein, whether they be strong or weak, whether they be 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 be good or bad; and what the cities are in which they dwell, whether in open places, or in strongholds;
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 it be fat or lean, whether there be trees therein, or not; and take ye courage, and take away some of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the season of the first ripening of grapes.
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 spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rechob, on the road to Chamath.
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 ascended on the south side, and came unto Hebron; and there were Achiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of 'Anak; [now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in 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 unto the valley of Eshcol, and they cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it upon a barrow between two; and [they took some] of the pomegranates and of the figs.
24 Because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut there, that place was called the Valley of Eshcol.
That place was called the valley of Eshcol, on account of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.
25 After forty days the men returned from spying out the land,
And they returned from spying out the land at the end of 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 went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and they brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and showed them 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 told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou didst send us, and truly doth it flow with milk and honey; and this is its fruit.
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.
Nevertheless the people are strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are very strongly walled, and great; and the children of 'Anak also have we seen there.
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.”
The Amalekites dwell in the southern country; and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Emorites, dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the margin of the 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 Caleb stilled the people toward Moses, and he said, We can easily go up, and take possession of it; for we are well able to overcome it.
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 who had gone up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people; for they are 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 up an evil report of the land which they had spied out unto the children of Israel, saying, The land through which we have passed to spy it out, is a land that consumeth its inhabitants; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great 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, the sons of 'Anak, of the giants' [family]: and we were in our own eyes as grasshoppers, and so were we in their eyes.
