Numbers 13

1 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Send men for yourself, and they will spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel. One man—you will send one man for the tribe of his fathers, everyone a prince among them.” 3 And Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran by the command of YHWH. All of them were men, and they were heads of the sons of Israel, 4 and these were their names: for the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur. 5 For the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori. 6 For the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh. 7 For the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph. 8 For the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea son of Nun. 9 For the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu. 10 For the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi. 11 For the tribe of Joseph (for the tribe of Manasseh), Gaddi son of Susi. 12 For the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli. 13 For the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael. 14 For the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vopshi. 15 For the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Machi. 16 These were the names of the men whom Moses had sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea son of Nun, Joshua. 17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, “Go up this way into the Negev, and you will go up the mountain, 18 and will see the land, what it is, and the people which are staying on it, whether it are strong or feeble, and whether it are few or many. 19 And what the land is in which it are staying, whether it is good or bad. And what are the cities in which it are staying, whether in camps or in fortresses. 20 And what the land is, whether it is fat or lean. Whether there is wood in it or not. And you will strengthen yourselves, and take of the fruit of the land.” Now the days were days of the first-fruits of grapes. 21 And they went up and spied out the land, from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob at the going in to Hamath. 22 And they went up by the Negev, and came to Hebron, and there were Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, children of Anak (and Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt), 23 and they came to the Brook of Eshcol, and cut down a branch and one cluster of grapes there, and they carried it on a staff by two, also some of the pomegranates, and of the figs. 24 That place had been called the Brook of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the sons of Israel cut from there. 25 And they returned from spying out the land at the end of 40 days. 26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh. And they brought them and all the congregation back word, and showed them the fruit of the land. 27 And they recounted to him, and said, “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. 28 Only, surely the people which are staying in the land are strong. And the cities are fortified and very great. And we have also seen children of Anak there. 29 Amalek is staying in the land of the Negev, and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite are staying in the hill country, and the Canaanite is staying by the sea, and by the side of the Jordan.” 30 And Caleb stilled the people concerning Moses and said, “Let us certainly go up—and we will possess it. For we are thoroughly able to do it.” 31 And the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for it are stronger than we.” 32 And they brought out an evil account of the land which they had 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 middle are men of stature. 33 And there we saw the giants, sons of Anak, of the giants. And we were as grasshoppers in our own eyes—and so we were in their eyes.”


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