1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2 Send you men, that they may
spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel: of every
tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, everyone a prince among
them. 3 Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the
commandment of Yahweh: all of them men who were heads of the children of
Israel. 4 These were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son
of Zaccur. 5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori. 6 Of the
tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 7 Of the tribe of Issachar,
Igal the son of Joseph. 8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.
9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu. 10 Of the tribe of
Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi. 11 Of the tribe of Joseph,
namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. 12 Of the
tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli. 13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur
the son of Michael. 14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. 16 These are the names
of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of
Nun Joshua. 17 Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to
them, Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill-country: 18 and
see the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are
strong or weak, whether they are few or many; 19 and what the land is that
they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they
dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds; 20 and what the land is,
whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be of
good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time
of the first-ripe grapes. 21 So they went up, and spied out the land from
the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath. 22 They went up
by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the
children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan
in Egypt.) 23 They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a
branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two;
they brought also of the pomegranates, and of the figs. 24 That
place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the
children of Israel cut down from there. 25 They returned from spying out
the land at the end of forty days. 26 They went and came to Moses, and to
Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the
wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them, and to all the
congregation, and shown them the fruit of the land. 27 They told him, and
said, We came to the land where you sent us; and surely it flows with milk
and honey; and this is the fruit of it. 28 However the people who dwell in
the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, and very great:
and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. 29 Amalek dwells in the
land of the South: and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell
in the hill-country; and the Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along by the
side of the Jordan. 30 Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said,
Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
31 But the men who went up with him said, We aren't able to go up against
the people; for they are stronger than we. 32 They brought up an evil
report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel,
saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that
eats up the inhabitants of it; and all the people who we saw in it are men of
great stature. 33 There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of
the Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in
their sight.
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