¹⁷Moses sent them to explore the land of Canaan, and he said to them, “Go up like this to the Negev,^e and go up into the hill country, ¹⁸and you will see what the land is like and if the people who inhabit it are strong or weak, or whether they are few or many, ¹⁹and whether the land that they are inhabiting is good or bad, and whether the cities they are inhabiting are camps or fortifications, ²⁰and whether the land is fertile or lean, and whether there are trees on it or not. You will show yourself courageous, and you will take some of the fruit of the land.” It was the time of first ripe grapes.

²¹So they went up and explored the land from the desert of Zin until Rehob, at Lebo Hamath.^f ²²They went up through the Negev^g and came to Hebron, where^h Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai the descendants of the Anakites were. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) ²³And they came up to the valleyⁱ of Eshcol, and they cut off a vine branch and one cluster of grapes from there; they carried it on a pole between two men, with pomegranates and figs. ²⁴That place he called the valley^j of Eshcol on account of the cluster of grapes that the Israelites^k cut off from there.

The Spies Return

²⁵They returned from exploring the land at the end of forty days.^l

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Footnotes

eAn arid region south of the Judean hills
fOr “near Hamath”
gAn arid region south of the Judean hills
hHebrew “and there”
iOr “wadi”
jOr “wadi”
kLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
lHebrew “day”