Chapter 13
1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
2Send you men, that they may
spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel: of every
tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, everyone a prince among
them.
3Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the
commandment of Yahweh: all of them men who were heads of the children of
Israel.
4These were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son
of Zaccur.
5Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
6Of the
tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
7Of the tribe of Issachar,
Igal the son of Joseph.
8Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea 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 who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of
Nun Joshua.
17Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to
them, Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country:
18and
see the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are
strong or weak, whether they are few or many;
19and 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;
20and what the land is,
whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be 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 spied out the land from
the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.
22They went up
by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the
children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan
in Egypt.)
23They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a
branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two;
they brought also of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
24That
place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the
children of Israel cut down from there.
25They returned from spying out
the land at the end of forty days.
26They went and came to Moses, and to
Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the
wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them, and to all the
congregation, and shown them the fruit of the land.
27They told him, and
said, We came to the land where you sent us; and surely it flows with milk
and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
28However the people who dwell in
the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, and very great:
and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
29Amalek dwells in the
land of the South: and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell
in the hill country; and the Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along by the
side of the Jordan.
30Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said,
Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
31But the men who went up with him said, We aren’t able to go up against
the people; for they are stronger than we.
32They brought up an evil
report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel,
saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that
eats up the inhabitants of it; and all the people who we saw in it are men of
great stature.
33There 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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