Numbers 13
1 and to speak: speak LORD to(wards) Moses to/for to say
Yahweh said to Moses/me,
2 to send: depart to/for you human and to spy [obj] land: country/planet Canaan which I to give: give to/for son: descendant/people Israel man one man one to/for tribe father his to send: depart all leader in/on/with them
“Send some men to Canaan [land] to explore it. That is the land that I will give to you Israelis. Send men who are leaders in their tribes.”
3 and to send: depart [obj] them Moses from wilderness Paran upon lip: word LORD all their human head: leader son: descendant/people Israel they(masc.)
So Moses/I did what Yahweh commanded him/me. He/I sent out twelve Israeli men who were all leaders of their tribes. He/I sent them from their/our camp at Paran in the desert.
4 and these name their to/for tribe Reuben Shammua son: child Zaccur
These are the names of the men [and the tribes they belonged to: ] Shammua, the son of Zaccur, from the tribe of Reuben;
5 to/for tribe Simeon Shaphat son: child Hori
Shaphat, the son of Hori, from the tribe of Simeon;
6 to/for tribe Judah Caleb son: child Jephunneh
Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, from the tribe of Judah;
7 to/for tribe Issachar Igal son: child Joseph
Igal, the son of Joseph, from the tribe of Issachar;
8 to/for tribe Ephraim Hoshea son: child Nun
Hoshea, the son of Nun, from the tribe of Ephraim;
9 to/for tribe Benjamin Palti son: child Raphu
Palti, the son of Raphu, from the tribe of Benjamin;
10 to/for tribe Zebulun Gaddiel son: child Sodi
Gaddiel, the son of Sodi, from the tribe of Zebulun;
11 to/for tribe Joseph to/for tribe Manasseh Gaddi son: child Susi
Gaddi, the son of Susi, from the tribe of Manasseh;
12 to/for tribe Dan Ammiel son: child Gemalli
Ammiel, the son of Gemalli, from the tribe of Dan;
13 to/for tribe Asher Sethur son: child Michael
Sethur, the son of Michael, from the tribe of Asher;
14 to/for tribe Naphtali Nahbi son: child Vophsi
Nahbi, the son of Vophsi, from the tribe of Naphtali;
15 to/for tribe Gad Geuel son: child Machi
and Geuel, the son of Maki, from the tribe of Gad.
16 these name [the] human which to send: depart Moses to/for to spy [obj] [the] land: country/planet and to call: call by Moses to/for Hoshea son: child Nun Joshua
Those are the names of the men whom Moses/I sent out to explore Canaan. [Before they left], Moses/I gave Hoshea a new name, Joshua, [which means ‘Yahweh is the one who saves].’
17 and to send: depart [obj] them Moses to/for to spy [obj] land: country/planet Canaan and to say to(wards) them to ascend: rise this in/on/with Negeb and to ascend: rise [obj] [the] mountain: hill country
Before Moses/I sent them to explore Canaan, he/I said to them, “Go through the southern part of Canaan, and then go [north] into the hilly area.
18 and to see: see [obj] [the] land: country/planet what? he/she/it and [obj] [the] people [the] to dwell upon her strong he/she/it weak little he/she/it if many
See what the land is like. See if the people who live there are strong or weak. See if there are many people or only a few people.
19 and what? [the] land: country/planet which he/she/it to dwell in/on/with her pleasant he/she/it if bad: harmful and what? [the] city which he/she/it to dwell in/on/with them in/on/with camp if in/on/with fortification
Find out what kind of land they live in [RHQ]. Is it good or bad? Find out about the towns in which they live [RHQ]. Do they have walls around them or not?
20 and what? [the] land: country/planet rich he/she/it if lean there in/on/with her tree if nothing and to strengthen: strengthen and to take: bring from fruit [the] land: country/planet and [the] day day firstfruit grape
Find out about the soil [RHQ]. Is it (fertile/good for growing crops) or not? Find out if there are trees there [RHQ]. Try to bring back some of the fruit that grows in that land.” [He/I said that because] it was the beginning of the time to harvest grapes.
21 and to ascend: rise and to spy [obj] [the] land: country/planet from wilderness Zin till Rehob Lebo-(Hamath) Hamath
So those men went to Canaan. They went [through the entire land], from the Zin desert [in the south] all the way to Rehob [town] near Lebo-Hamath [in the north].
22 and to ascend: rise in/on/with Negeb and to come (in): come till Hebron and there Ahiman Sheshai and Talmai born [the] Anak and Hebron seven year to build to/for face: before Zoan Egypt
In the south, they went to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, [huge men] descended from Anak, lived. Hebron was a city that was built seven years before Zoan [city] was built in Egypt.
23 and to come (in): come till (Eshcol) Valley (Valley of) Eshcol and to cut: cut from there branch and cluster grape one and to lift: bear him in/on/with yoke in/on/with two and from [the] pomegranate and from [the] fig
In one valley, they cut from a grapevine one cluster of grapes. [Because it was very large, they needed] two men to carry it on a pole. They also picked some pomegranates and some figs [to carry back to their camp].
24 to/for place [the] he/she/it to call: call by (Eshcol) Valley (Valley of) Eshcol upon because [the] cluster which to cut: cut from there son: descendant/people Israel
They called that place Eshcol [which means ‘cluster’] because they had cut that [huge] cluster of grapes there.
25 and to return: return from to spy [the] land: country/planet from end forty day
After they explored the land for 40 days, they returned to their camp.
26 and to go: come and to come (in): come to(wards) Moses and to(wards) Aaron and to(wards) all congregation son: descendant/people Israel to(wards) wilderness Paran Kadesh [to] and to return: return [obj] them word and [obj] all [the] congregation and to see: see them [obj] fruit [the] land: country/planet
They came to Aaron and Moses/me and the rest of the Israeli people in the desert at Paran. They reported to everyone what they had seen. They also showed them the fruit that they had brought back.
27 and to recount to/for him and to say to come (in): come to(wards) [the] land: country/planet which to send: depart us and also to flow: flowing milk and honey he/she/it and this fruit her
But this is what they reported to Moses/me: “We arrived in the land that you sent us to explore. It is truly a beautiful land, and it is very fertile [IDM]. Here is some of the fruit.
28 end for strong [the] people [the] to dwell in/on/with land: country/planet and [the] city to gather/restrain/fortify great: large much and also born [the] Anak to see: see there
But the people who live there are very strong. Their cities are large and are surrounded by walls. We even saw some of the [huge] descendants of Anak there.
29 Amalek to dwell in/on/with land: country/planet [the] Negeb and [the] Hittite and [the] Jebusite and [the] Amorite to dwell in/on/with mountain: hill country and [the] Canaanite to dwell upon [the] sea and upon hand: bank [the] Jordan
The descendants of Amalek live in the southern part [of the land], and the descendants of Heth, Jebus, and Amor live in the hilly area [to the north]. The descendants of Canaan live along the coast of the [Mediterranean] sea and along the Jordan [River].”
30 and to silence Caleb [obj] [the] people to(wards) Moses and to say to ascend: rise to ascend: rise and to possess: take [obj] her for be able be able to/for her
[When they said that, the people were afraid and started to cry out very loudly]. But Caleb told the people who were standing near Moses/me to be quiet. Then he said, “We should go there and take the land, because we are certainly able to conquer it!”
31 and [the] human which to ascend: rise with him to say not be able to/for to ascend: rise to(wards) [the] people for strong he/she/it from us
But the men who had gone with him said, “No, we cannot attack [and defeat] those people! They are much stronger than we are!”
32 and to come out: send slander [the] land: country/planet which to spy [obj] her to(wards) son: descendant/people Israel to/for to say [the] land: country/planet which to pass in/on/with her to/for to spy [obj] her land: country/planet to eat to dwell her he/she/it and all [the] people which to see: see in/on/with midst her human measure
So those men gave to the Israeli people a bad report about the land that they had explored. They said, “The land that we explored is very large; we cannot conquer it. And all the people whom we saw are very tall.
33 and there to see: see [obj] [the] Nephilim son: descendant/people Anak from [the] Nephilim and to be in/on/with eye: appearance our like/as locust and so to be in/on/with eye: appearance their
We even saw the descendants of Nephili there. The descendants of Anak [whom we saw there] are descended from the giant Nephili people. When we saw them, we felt [as small] as grasshoppers [SIM], and they thought that we looked like grasshoppers too!”
