Numbers 12–13

And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for ^ahe had married an Ethiopian woman. ²And they said, Hath the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses? ^bhath he not spoken also by us? And the Lord ^cheard it. ^3d(Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)^4dAnd the Lord spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out. ^5eAnd the Lord came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth. ⁶And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him ^fin a vision, and will speak unto him ^gin a dream. ^7hMy servant Moses is not so, ⁱwho is faithful in all ^kmine house. ⁸With him will I speak ^lmouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in ^mdark speeches; and ⁿthe similitude of the Lord shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against ^omy servant Moses? ⁹And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them; and he departed. ¹⁰And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and ^pbehold, Miriam became ^qleprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and behold, she was leprous. ¹¹And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, ^rlay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned. ¹²Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb. ¹³And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee. ¹⁴And the Lord said unto Moses, If her father had but ^sspit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be ^tshut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again. ¹⁵And Miriam ^uwas shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again. ¹⁶And afterward the people removed from ^xHazeroth, and pitched ^yin the wilderness of Paran.

XIII.And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, ^2aSend thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them. ³And Moses by the commandment of the Lord sent them ^bfrom the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel. ⁴And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. ⁵Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori. ^6cOf the tribe of Judah, ^dCaleb the son of Jephunneh. ⁷Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph. ⁸Of the tribe of Ephraim, ^eOshea the son of Nun. ⁹Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu. ¹⁰Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi. ¹¹Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. ¹²Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli. ¹³Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael. ¹⁴Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi. ¹⁵Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. ¹⁶These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called ^fOshea the son of Nun, Jehoshua. ¹⁷And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way ^gsouthward, and go up into ^hthe mountain: ¹⁸and see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many; ¹⁹and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds; ²⁰and what the land is, whether it be ⁱfat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And ^kbe ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first ripe grapes. ²¹So they went up, and searched the land ^lfrom the wilderness of Zin unto ^mRehob, ⁿas men come to Hamath. ²²And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where ^oAhiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now ^pHebron was built seven years before ^qZoan in Egypt.) ^23rAnd they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a ^sstaff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs. ²⁴The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence. ²⁵And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.

²⁶And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to ^tKadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land. ²⁷And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with ^umilk and honey; ^xand this is the fruit of it. ²⁸Nevertheless ^ythe people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are ^ywalled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. ^29zThe Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and ^athe Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan. ³⁰And ^bCaleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. ^31cBut the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. ³²And they brought up ^dan evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and ^eall the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. ³³And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of ^fthe giants: and we were in our own sight as ^ggrasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

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