Numbers 13
1 And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,
And there the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 “Send men for yourself, and they spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel; one man—you send one man for the tribe of his fathers, everyone a prince among them.”
Send men to view the land of Chanaan, which I will give to the children of Israel, one of every tribe, of the rulers.
3 And Moses sends them from the wilderness of Paran by the command of YHWH; all of them [are] men, [and] they are heads of the sons of Israel,
Moses did what the Lord had commanded, sending from the desert of Pharan, principal men, whose names are these:
4 and these [are] their names: for the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur;
Of the tribe of Ruben, Sammua the son of Zechur.
5 for the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori;
Of the tribe of Simeon, Saphat the son of Hurl.
6 for the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;
Of the tribe of Juda, Caleb the son of Jephone.
7 for the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph;
Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
8 for the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea son of Nun;
Of the tribe of Ephraim, Osee the son of Nun.
9 for the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu;
Of the tribe of Benjamin, Phalti the son of Raphu.
10 for the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi;
Of the tribe of Zabulon, Geddiel the son of Sodi.
11 for the tribe of Joseph (for the tribe of Manasseh), Gaddi son of Susi;
Of the tribe of Joseph, of the sceptre of Manasses, Gaddi the son of Susi.
12 for the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli;
Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
13 for the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael;
Of the tribe of Aser, Sthur the son of Michael.
14 for the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vopshi;
Of the tribe of Nephtali, Nahabi the son of Vapsi.
15 for the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Machi.
Of the tribe of Gad, Guel the son of Machi.
16 These [are] the names of the men whom Moses has sent to spy out the land; and Moses calls Hoshea son of Nun, Joshua.
These are the names of the men, whom Moses sent to view the land: and he called Osee the son of Nun, Josue.
17 And Moses sends them to spy out the land of Canaan and says to them, “Go up this [way] into the south, and you have gone up the mountain,
And Moses sent them to view the land of Chanaan, and said to them: Go you up by the south side. And when you shall come to the mountains,
18 and have seen the land, what it [is], and the people which is dwelling on it, whether it [is] strong or feeble, [and] whether it [is] few or many;
View the land, of what sort it is: and the people that are the inhabitants thereof, whether they be strong or weak: few in number or many:
19 and what the land [is] in which it is dwelling, whether it [is] good or bad; and what [are] the cities in which it is dwelling, whether in camps or in fortresses.
The land itself, whether it be good or bad: what manner of cities, walled or without walls:
20 And what the land [is], whether it [is] fat or lean; whether there is wood in it or not; and you have strengthened yourselves, and have taken of the fruit of the land”; now the days [are] days of the first-fruits of grapes.
The ground, fat or barren, woody or without trees. Be of good courage, and bring us of the fruits of the land. Now it was the time when the first ripe grapes are fit to be eaten.
21 And they go up and spy out the land, from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob at the going in to Hamath;
And when they were gone up, they viewed the land from the desert of Sin, unto Rohob as you enter into Emath.
22 and they go up by the south, and come to Hebron, and there [are] Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, children of Anak (and Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt),
And they went up at the south side, and came to Hebron, where were Achiman and Sisai and Tholmai the sons of Enac. For Hebron was built seven years before Tanis the city of Egypt.
23 and they come to the Brook of Eshcol, and cut down a branch and one cluster of grapes there, and they carry it on a staff by two, also [some] of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
And going forward as far as the torrent of the cluster of grapes, they cut off a branch with its cluster of grapes, which two men carried upon a lever. They took also of the pomegranates and of the figs of that place:
24 That place has been called the Brook of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the sons of Israel cut from there.
Which was called Nehelescol, that is to say, the torrent of the cluster of grapes, because from thence the children of Israel had carried a cluster of grapes.
25 And they return from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
And they that went to spy out the land returned after forty days, having gone round all the country,
26 And they go and come to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and they bring them and all the congregation back word, and show them the fruit of the land.
And came to Moses and Aaron and to all the assembly of the children of Israel to the desert of Pharan, which is in Cades. And speaking to them and to all the multitude, they shewed them the fruits of the land:
27 And they recount to him, and say, “We came to the land to where you have sent us, and it is indeed flowing with milk and honey—and this [is] its fruit;
And they related and said: We came into the land to which thou sentest us, which in very deed floweth with milk and honey as may be known by these fruits:
28 only, surely the people which is dwelling in the land [is] strong; and the cities are fortified [and] very great; and we have also seen children of Anak there.
But it hath very strong inhabitants, and the cities are great and walled. We saw there the race of Enac.
29 Amalek is dwelling in the land of the south, and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite are dwelling in the hill country, and the Canaanite is dwelling by the sea, and by the side of the Jordan.”
Amalec dwelleth in the south, the Hethite and the Jebusite and the Amorrhite in the mountains: but the Chanaanite abideth by the sea and near the streams of the Jordan.
30 And Caleb stills the people concerning Moses and says, “Let us certainly go up—and we have possessed it; for we are thoroughly able to [do] it.”
In the mean time Caleb, to still the murmuring of the people that rose against Moses, said: Let us go up and possess the land, for we shall be able to conquer it.
31 And the men who have gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for it [is] stronger than we”;
But the others, that had been with him, said: No, we are not able to go up to this people, because they are stronger than we.
32 and they bring out an evil account of the land which they have spied out to the sons of Israel, saying, “The land into which we passed over to spy it out is a land eating up its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in its midst [are] men of stature;
And they spoke ill of the land, which they had viewed, before the children of Israel, saying: The land which we have viewed, devoureth its inhabitants: the people, that we beheld, are of a tall stature.
33 and there we saw the giants, sons of Anak, of the giants; and we are as grasshoppers in our own eyes—and so we were in their eyes.”
There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant kind: in comparison of whom, we seemed like locusts.
