Numbers Chapter 13 Back Next{13:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
{13:2} "Send men, that they may spy out the land of
Canaan, which I give to the children of
Israel. Of every tribe of their
fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince among them."
{13:3} 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.
{13:4} These were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
{13:5} Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
{13:6} Of the tribe of
Judah,
Caleb the son of
Jephunneh.
{13:7} Of the tribe of
Issachar,
Igal the son of
Joseph.
{13:8} Of the tribe of
Ephraim,
Hoshea the son of Nun.
{13:9} Of the tribe of
Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
{13:10} Of the tribe of Zebulun,
Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
{13:11} Of the tribe of Joseph, of the tribe of
Manasseh,
Gaddi the son of Susi.
{13:12} Of the tribe of Dan,
Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
{13:13} Of the tribe of
Asher, Sethur the son of
Michael.
{13:14} Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
{13:15} Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
{13:16} These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun
Joshua.
{13:17} 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:
{13:18} 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;
{13:19} 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;
{13:20} and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be courageous, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first-ripe
grapes."
{13:21} So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of
Hamath.
{13:22} 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.)
{13:23} 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 also brought some of the pomegranates and
figs.
{13:24} That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.
{13:25} They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
{13:26} 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 showed them the fruit of the land.
{13:27} 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 its fruit.
{13:28} However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.
{13:29}
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."
{13:30} 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."
{13:31} 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."
{13:32} 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 its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.
{13:33} 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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