The First Book of Moses, Commonly Called Numbers (WEB)
13: 1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 13:2Send 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. 13:3Moses 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. 13:4These
were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. 13:5Of the tribe of Simeon,
Shaphat the son of Hori. 13:6Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 13:7Of the tribe of
Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph. 13:8Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun. 13:9Of the tribe
of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu. 13:10Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi. 13:11Of the
tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. 13:12Of the tribe of Dan,
Ammiel the son of Gemalli. 13:13Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael. 13:14Of the tribe of
Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi. 13:15Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. 13:16These are
the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun
Joshua. 13:17Moses 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: 13:18and see the land, what it is; and the people who dwell
therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many; 13:19and 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; 13:20and 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. 13:21So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to
Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath. 13:22They 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.) 13:23They 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. 13:24That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster
which the children of Israel cut down from there. 13:25They returned from spying out the land at the
end of forty days. 13:26They 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. 13:27They 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.
13:28However 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. 13:29Amalek 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. 13:30Caleb stilled the people before
Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. 13:31But
the men who went up with him said, We aren't able to go up against the people; for they are
stronger than we. 13:32They 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. 13:33There 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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