Numbers 13
1 And the Lord said to Moses,
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 Send men to get knowledge about the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from every tribe of their fathers you are to send a man, every one a chief among them.
Send for you men, and let them spy the land of the Chananites, which I give to the sons of Israel for a possession; one man for a tribe, you shall send them away according to their families, every one of them a prince.
3 And Moses sent them from the waste land of Paran as the Lord gave orders, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.
And Moses sent them out of the wilderness of Pharan by the word of the Lord; all these [were] the princes of the sons of Israel.
4 And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua, the son of Zaccur.
And these [are] their names: of the tribe of Ruben, Samuel the son of Zachur.
5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat, the son of Hori.
Of the tribe of Symeon, Saphat the son of Suri.
6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb, the son of Jephunneh.
Of the tribe of Judah, Chaleb the son of Jephonne.
7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal, the son of Joseph.
Of the tribe of Issachar, Ilaal the son of Joseph.
8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea, the son of Nun.
Of the tribe of Ephraim, Ause the son of Naue.
9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti, the son of Raphu.
Of the tribe of Benjamin, Phalti the son of Raphu.
10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel, the son of Sodi.
Of the tribe of Zabulon, Gudiel the son of Sudi.
11 Of the tribe of Joseph, that is of the family of Manasseh, Gaddi, the son of Susi.
Of the tribe of Joseph of the sons of Manasse, Gaddi the son of Susi.
12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel, the son of Gemalli.
Of the tribe of Dan, Amiel the son of Gamali.
13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur, the son of Michael
Of the tribe of Aser, Sathur the son of Michael.
14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi, the son of Vophsi.
Of the tribe of Nephthali, Nabi the son of Sabi.
15 Of the tribe of Gad, Gevel, the son of Machi.
Of the tribe of Gad, Gudiel the son of Macchi.
16 These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to get knowledge about the land. And Moses gave to Hoshea, the son of Nun, the name of Joshua.
These [are] the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land; and Moses called Ause the son of Naue, Joshua.
17 So Moses sent them to have a look at the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up into the South and into the hill-country;
And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Chanaan, and said to them, Go up by this wilderness; and you shall go up to the mountain,
18 And see what the land is like; and if the people living in it are strong or feeble, small or great in number;
and you shall see the land, what it is, and the people that dwells on it, whether it is strong or weak, or [whether] they are few or many.
19 And what sort of land they are living in, if it is good or bad; and what their living-places are, tent-circles or walled towns;
And what the land is on which they dwell, [whether] it is good or bad; and what the cities are wherein these dwell, whether they dwell in walled [cities] or unwalled.
20 And if the land is fertile or poor, and if there is wood in it or not. And be of good heart, and come back with some of the produce of the land. Now it was the time when the first grapes were ready.
And what the land is, whether rich or poor; whether there are trees in it or no: and you shall persevere and take of the fruits of the land: and the days [were] the days of spring, the forerunners of the grape.
21 So they went up and got a view of the land, from the waste land of Zin to Rehob, on the way to Hamath.
And they went up and surveyed the land from the wilderness of Sin to Rhoob, as men go in to Aemath.
22 They went up into the South and came to Hebron; and Ahiman and Sheshai and Talmai, the children of Anak, were living there. (Now the building of Hebron took place seven years before that of Zoan in Egypt.)
And they went up by the wilderness, and departed as far as Chebron; and there [was] Achiman, and Sessi, and Thelami, the progeny of Enach. Now Chebron was built seven years before Tanin of Egypt.
23 And they came to the valley of Eshcol, and cutting down a vine-branch with its grapes, two of them took it on a rod between them; and they took some pomegranates and figs.
And they came to the valley of the cluster and surveyed it; and they cut down thence a bough and one cluster of grapes upon it, and bore it on staves, and [they took] of the pomegranates and the figs.
24 That place was named the valley of Eshcol because of the grapes which the children of Israel took from there.
And they called that place, The valley of the cluster, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
25 At the end of forty days they came back from viewing the land.
And they returned from thence, having surveyed the land, after forty days.
26 And they came back to Moses and Aaron and all the children of Israel, to Kadesh in the waste land of Paran; and gave an account to them and to all the people and let them see the produce of the land.
And they proceeded and came to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Pharan Cades; and they brought word to them and to all the congregation, and they showed the fruit of the land:
27 And they said, We came to the land where you sent us, and truly it is flowing with milk and honey: and here is some of the produce of it.
and they reported to him, and said, We came into the land into which you sent us, a land flowing with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
28 But the people living in the land are strong, and the towns are walled and very great; further, we saw the children of Anak there.
Only the nation that dwells upon it is bold, and they have very great and strong walled towns, and we saw there the children of Enach.
29 And the Amalekites are in the South; and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites are living in the hill-country; and the Canaanites by the sea and by the side of Jordan.
And Amalec dwells in the land toward the south: and the Chettite and the Evite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwells in the hill country: and the Chananite dwells by the sea, and by the river Jordan.
30 Then Caleb made signs to the people to keep quiet, and said to Moses, Let us go up straight away and take this land; for we are well able to overcome it.
And Chaleb stayed the people from speaking before Moses, and said to him, Nay, but we will go up by all means, and will inherit it, for we shall surely prevail against them.
31 But the men who had gone up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.
But the men that went up together with him said, We will not go up, for we shall not by any means be able to go up against the nation, for it is much stronger than we.
32 And they gave the children of Israel a bad account of the land they had been to see, saying, This land through which we went is a land causing destruction to those living in it; and all the people we saw there are men of more than common size.
And they brought a horror of that land which they surveyed upon the children of Israel, saying, The land which we passed by to survey it, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of extraordinary stature.
33 There we saw those great men, the sons of Anak, offspring of the Nephilim: and we seemed to ourselves no more than insects, and so we seemed to them.
And there we saw the giants; and we were before them as locusts, yes even so were we before them.
