Numbers 13:1–33

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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