NU-13:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
NU-13:2 Send thou men, that they may search 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 ruler among them.
NU-13:3 And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from
the
wilderness of Paran: all those men [were] heads of the children
of Israel.
NU-13:4 And these [were] their names: of the tribe of Reuben,
Shammua the son
of Zaccur.
NU-13:5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
NU-13:6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
NU-13:7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
NU-13:8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.
NU-13:9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
NU-13:10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
NU-13:11 Of the tribe of Joseph, [namely], of the tribe of
Manasseh, Gaddi
the son of Susi.
NU-13:12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
NU-13:13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
NU-13:14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
NU-13:15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
NU-13:16 These [are] the names of the men which Moses sent to
spy out the
land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
NU-13:17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and
said unto
them, Get you up this [way] southward, and go up into the
mountain:
NU-13:18 And see the land, what it [is]; and the people that
dwelleth
therein, whether they [be] strong or weak, few or many;
NU-13:19 And what the land [is] that they dwell in, whether it
[be] good or
bad; and what cities [they be] that they dwell in, whether in
tents, or in
strong holds;
NU-13:20 And what the land [is], whether it [be] fat or lean,
whether there
be 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 firstripe grapes.
NU-13:21 So they went up, and searched the land from the
wilderness of Zin
unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
NU-13:22 And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron;
where Ahiman,
Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, [were]. (Now Hebron
was built seven
years before Zoan in Egypt.)
NU-13:23 And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down
from thence a
branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two
upon a staff;
and [they brought] of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
NU-13:24 The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the
cluster of
grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
NU-13:25 And they returned from searching of the land after
forty days.
NU-13:26 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.
NU-13:27 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.
NU-13:28 Nevertheless the people [be] strong that dwell in the
land, and the
cities [are] walled, [and] very great: and moreover we saw the
children of
Anak there.
NU-13:29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the
Hittites, and
the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the
Canaanites
dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
NU-13:30 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.
NU-13:31 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able
to go up
against the people; for they [are] stronger than we.
NU-13:32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which
they had
searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through
which we have
gone to search it, [is] a land that eateth up the inhabitants
thereof; and all
the people that we saw in it [are] men of a great stature.
NU-13:33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, [which
come] of the
giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we
were in their
sight.
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