¹⁷When Moses sent them to explore Canaan, he told them, “Go through the Negev and then into the mountain region. ¹⁸See what the land is like and whether the people living there are strong or weak, few or many. ¹⁹Is the land they live in good or bad? Do their cities have walls around them or not? ²⁰Is the soil rich or poor? Does the land have trees or not? Do your best to bring back some fruit from the land.” (It was the season when grapes were beginning to ripen.)

²¹So the men explored the land from the Desert of Zin to the border of Hamath. ²²They went through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai lived. They are descendants of Anak. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) ²³When they came to the Eshcol Valley, they cut off a branch with only one bunch of grapes on it. They carried it on a pole between two of them. They also brought some pomegranates and figs. ²⁴So they called that valley Eshcol ^[Bunch of Grapes^[ because of the bunch of grapes the Israelites cut off there.

²⁵Forty days later, they came back from exploring the land.

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[Proper names or foreign words whose meaning is significant for understanding a particular Bible passage are translated in brackets following the name or phrase