4 Mosebok 13
1 Og Herren talte til Moses og sa:
Yahweh said to Moses/me,
2 Send avsted menn for å utspeide Kana'ans land, som jeg nu vil gi Israels barn! En mann for hver fedrenestamme skal I sende; hver av dem skal være en høvding blandt folket.
“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 Da sendte Moses dem fra ørkenen Paran efter Herrens ord; alle var de overhoder for Israels barn.
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 Og dette var deres navn: For Rubens stamme Sammua, Sakkurs sønn,
These are the names of the men [and the tribes they belonged to: ] Shammua, the son of Zaccur, from the tribe of Reuben;
5 for Simeons stamme Safat, Horis sønn,
Shaphat, the son of Hori, from the tribe of Simeon;
6 for Juda stamme Kaleb, Jefunnes sønn,
Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, from the tribe of Judah;
7 for Issakars stamme Jigeal, Josefs sønn,
Igal, the son of Joseph, from the tribe of Issachar;
8 for Efra'ims stamme Hosea, Nuns sønn,
Hoshea, the son of Nun, from the tribe of Ephraim;
9 for Benjamins stamme Palti, Rafus sønn,
Palti, the son of Raphu, from the tribe of Benjamin;
10 for Sebulons stamme Gaddiel, Sodis sønn,
Gaddiel, the son of Sodi, from the tribe of Zebulun;
11 for Josefs stamme, for Manasse stamme Gaddi, Susis sønn,
Gaddi, the son of Susi, from the tribe of Manasseh;
12 for Dans stamme Ammiel, Gemallis sønn,
Ammiel, the son of Gemalli, from the tribe of Dan;
13 for Asers stamme Setur, Mikaels sønn,
Sethur, the son of Michael, from the tribe of Asher;
14 for Naftali stamme Nahbi, Vofsis sønn,
Nahbi, the son of Vophsi, from the tribe of Naphtali;
15 for Gads stamme Ge'uel, Makis sønn.
and Geuel, the son of Maki, from the tribe of Gad.
16 Dette var navnene på de menn som Moses sendte for å utspeide landet; men Moses gav Hosea, Nuns sønn, navnet Josva.
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 Og Moses sendte dem for å utspeide Kana'ans land, og han sa til dem: Dra op her til sydlandet og stig op i fjellene
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 og se hvordan landet er, og om folket som bor der, er sterkt eller svakt, om det er lite eller stort,
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 og hvordan det land er som det bor i, om det er godt eller dårlig, og hvordan de byer er som det bor i, om det bor i leire eller i festninger,
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 og hvordan jorden er, om den er fet eller mager, om det er trær der eller ikke! Vær ved godt mot og ta med eder av landets frukt! Det var nettop på den tid de første druer blev modne.
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 Så drog de da op og utspeidet landet fra ørkenen Sin til Rehob, bortimot Hamat.
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 De drog op til sydlandet og kom til Hebron; der bodde Akiman, Sesai og Talmai, Anaks barn - Hebron var bygget syv år før Soan i Egypten.
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 Så kom de til Eskol-dalen; der skar de av en vinranke med en drueklase, og den bar to mann mellem sig på en stang; likeledes tok de granatepler og fikener.
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 Dette sted blev kalt Eskol-dalen efter den drueklase som Israels barn skar av der.
They called that place Eshcol [which means ‘cluster’] because they had cut that [huge] cluster of grapes there.
25 Da firti dager var til ende, vendte de tilbake efter å ha utspeidet landet.
After they explored the land for 40 days, they returned to their camp.
26 De gikk avsted og fant Moses og Aron og hele Israels barns menighet i ørkenen Paran, i Kades, og gav dem og hele menigheten beskjed om hvad de hadde sett, og viste dem landets frukt.
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 De fortalte ham og sa: Vi kom til det land du sendte oss til, og det flyter virkelig med melk og honning, og her er dets frukt.
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 Men det folk som bor i landet, er sterkt, og byene er som festninger og meget store; der så vi også Anaks barn.
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 Amalekittene bor i sydlandet, og hetittene og jebusittene og amorittene bor i fjellbygdene, og kana'anittene bor ute ved havet og langsmed 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 Men da folket knurret mot Moses, søkte Kaleb å stagge dem og sa: Vi vil dra op og ta landet i eie; vi skal nok få det i vår makt.
[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 Men de menn som hadde vært med ham der op, sa: Vi makter ikke å dra op mot det folk; for det er sterkere enn vi.
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 Og de talte ille blandt Israels barn om det land de hadde utspeidet, og sa: Det land vi drog igjennem for å utspeide det, er et land som fortærer sine innbyggere, og alle de vi så der, var høivoksne folk;
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 der så vi kjempene, Anaks barn av kjempeætten, og mot dem var vi i våre egne øine som gresshopper, og det syntes også de at vi var.
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!”
