| 1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Send thou men, that
they may spy out 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
prince among them. 3 And Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran
according to the commandment of Jehovah: all of them men who were heads of
the children of Israel. 4 And these were their names: Of the tribe of
Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. 5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the
son of Hori. 6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 7 Of
the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph. 8 Of the tribe of Ephraim,
Hoshea the son of Nun. 9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi. 11 Of the tribe of
Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli. 13 Of the tribe of
Asher, Sethur the son of Michael. 14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the
son of Vophsi. 15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. 16 These
are the names of the men that Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses
called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them,
Get you up this way by the South, and go up into the hill-country: 18 and
see the land, what it is; and the people that dwell therein, whether they are
strong or weak, whether they are few or many; 19 and 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; 20 and what the land is,
whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. And be ye
of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the
time of the first-ripe grapes.
21 So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin unto
Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath. 22 And they went up by the South, and
came unto Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were
there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) 23 And
they came unto the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with
one cluster of grapes, and they bare it upon a staff between two; they
brought also of the pomegranates, and of the figs. 24 That place was
called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of
Israel cut down from thence.
25 And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
26 And 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
Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and
showed them the fruit of the land. 27 And they told him, and said, We came
unto the land whither thou sentest us; and surely it floweth with milk and
honey; and this is the fruit of it. 28 Howbeit the people that dwell in
the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, and very great:
and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. 29 Amalek dwelleth in the
land of the South: and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell
in the hill-country; and the Canaanite dwelleth by the sea, and along by the
side of the Jordan.
30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at
once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. 31 But the men
that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people; for
they are stronger than we. 32 And they brought up an evil report of the
land which they had spied out unto the children of Israel, saying, The land,
through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eateth up the
inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great
stature. 33 And there 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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