Numbers 13
1 And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,
And there the Lord spak to Moises,
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.”
and seide, Sende thou men that schulen biholde the lond of Canaan, which Y schal yyue to the sones of Israel, of ech lynage o man of the princes.
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,
Moises dide that that the Lord comaundide, and sente fro the deseert of Pharan princes, men of whiche these ben the names.
4 and these [are] their names: for the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur;
Of the lynage of Ruben, Semmya, the sone of Zectur.
5 for the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori;
Of the lynage of Symeon, Saphat, the sone of Hury.
6 for the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;
Of the lynage of Juda, Caleph, the sone of Jephone.
7 for the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph;
Of the lynage of Isachar, Igal, the sone of Joseph.
8 for the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea son of Nun;
Of the lynage of Effraym, Osee, the sone of Nun.
9 for the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu;
Of the lynage of Beniamyn, Phalti, the sone of Raphu.
10 for the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi;
Of the lynage of Zabulon, Gediel, the sone of Sodi.
11 for the tribe of Joseph (for the tribe of Manasseh), Gaddi son of Susi;
Of the lynage of Joseph, of the gouernaunce of Manasses, Gaddi, the sone of Susy.
12 for the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli;
Of the lynage of Dan, Amyel, the sone of Gemalli.
13 for the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael;
Of the lynage of Aser, Sur, the sone of Mychael.
14 for the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vopshi;
Of the lynage of Neptalym, Nabdi, the sone of Napsi.
15 for the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Machi.
Of the lynage of Gad, Guel, the sone 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 ben the names of men, which Moises sente to biholde the lond of Canaan; and he clepide Osee, the sone 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,
Therfor Moises sente hem to biholde the lond of Canaan, and seide to hem, `Stie ye bi the south coost; and whanne ye comen to the hillis,
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;
biholde ye the lond, what maner lond it is; and biholde ye the puple which is the dwellere therof, whether it is strong, ethir feble, `whether thei ben fewe in noumbre, ether manye;
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.
whether that lond is good, ethir yuel; what maner citees ben, wallid, ether without wallis;
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.
whether the lond is fat, ether bareyn, `whether it is ful of woodis, ethir without trees. Be ye coumfortid, and `brynge ye to vs of the fruytis of that lond. Sotheli the tyme was, whanne grapis first ripe myyten be etun thanne.
21 And they go up and spy out the land, from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob at the going in to Hamath;
And whanne thei hadden stied, thei aspieden the lond, fro the deseert of Syn `til to Rohob, as men entryth to 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 thei stieden to the south, and camen in to Ebron, where Achyman, and Sisai, and Tholmai, the sones of Enach, weren; for Hebron was maad bi seuen yeer bifor Thamnys, the citee of Egipt.
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 thei yeden til to the stronde of clustre, and kittiden doun a sioun with his grape, which twei men baren in a barre; also thei token of pumgarnadis, and of the figis of that place which is clepid Nehelescol,
24 That place has been called the Brook of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the sons of Israel cut from there.
that is, the stronde of grape, for the sones of Israel baren a clustre fro thennus.
25 And they return from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
And the aspieris of the lond, whanne thei hadden cumpassid al the cuntrey, after fourti daies camen to Moises and Aaron,
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 to al the cumpany of the sones of Israel, in to the deseert of Pharan which is in Cades. And `the aspieris spaken to hem, and schewiden the fruytis of the lond to al the multitude, and telden,
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 seiden, We camen to the lond, to which thou sentest vs, which lond treuli flowith with mylk and hony, as it may be knowun bi these fruytis;
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 strongeste inhabiteris, and grete cytees, and wallid; we sien there the kynrede of Anachym; Amalech dwellith in the south;
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.”
Ethei, and Jebusei, and Amorey dwellen in the hilli placis; forsothe Cananey dwellith bisidis the see, and bisidis the floodis of 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.”
Among thes thingis Caleph peeside the grutchyng of the puple, that was maad ayens Moises, and seide, `Stie we, and welde we the lond, for we moun gete 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”;
Forsothe other aspieris, that weren with hym, seiden, We moun not stie to this puple, for it is strongere 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 thei deprauyden the lond which thei hadden biholde, anentis the sones of Israel, and seiden, The lond which we cumpassiden deuourith hise dwelleris; the puple which we bihelden is of large stature; there we syen summe wondris ayens kynde,
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.”
of the sones of Enach, of the kynde of geauntis, to whiche we weren comparisound, and weren seien as locustis.
