13Numbers 13

1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,Select Numbers 13:1

2“Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince among them.”Select Numbers 13:2

3Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Yahweh. All of them were men who were heads of the children of Israel.Select Numbers 13:3

4These were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.Select Numbers 13:4

5Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.Select Numbers 13:5

6Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.Select Numbers 13:6

7Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.Select Numbers 13:7

8Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.Select Numbers 13:8

9Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.Select Numbers 13:9

10Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.Select Numbers 13:10

11Of the tribe of Joseph, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.Select Numbers 13:11

12Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.Select Numbers 13:12

13Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.Select Numbers 13:13

14Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.Select Numbers 13:14

15Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.Select Numbers 13:15

16These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.Select Numbers 13:16

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.Select Numbers 13:17

18See the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;Select Numbers 13:18

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;Select Numbers 13:19

20and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be courageous, and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.Select Numbers 13:20

21So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.Select Numbers 13:21

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.)Select Numbers 13:22

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 also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.Select Numbers 13:23

24That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.Select Numbers 13:24

25They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.Select Numbers 13:25

26They went and came to Moses, 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. They showed them the fruit of the land.Select Numbers 13:26

27They told him, and said, “We came to the land where you sent us. Surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.Select Numbers 13:27

28However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.Select Numbers 13:28

29Amalek dwells in the land of the South. The Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hill country. The Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along the side of the Jordan.”Select Numbers 13:29

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!”Select Numbers 13:30

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.”Select Numbers 13:31

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 its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.Select Numbers 13:32

33There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim. We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”Select Numbers 13:33