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Numbers, starting at chapter 13
{13:1} The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, {13:2} 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.
{13:3} Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the
commandment of the LORD: all of them men who were heads of the
children of Israel. {13:4} These were their names: Of the tribe of
Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. {13:5} Of the tribe of Simeon,
Shaphat the son of Hori. {13:6} Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son
of Jephunneh. {13:7} Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
{13:8} Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun. {13:9} Of the
tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu. {13:10} Of the tribe of
Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi. {13:11} Of the tribe of Joseph, of
the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. {13:12} Of the tribe of
Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli. {13:13} Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur
the son of Michael. {13:14} Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of
Vophsi. {13:15} Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. {13:16}
These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land.
Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua. {13:17} Moses 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: {13:18} and see the land, what
it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or
weak, whether they are few or many; {13:19} 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; {13:20} and
what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood
therein, or not. Be courageous, and bring of the fruit of the land.
Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes. {13:21} So they
went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob,
to the entrance of Hamath. {13:22} They 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.)
{13:23} They 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. {13:24} That
place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which
the children of Israel cut down from there. {13:25} They returned from
spying out the land at the end of forty days. {13:26} They 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 showed them the
fruit of the land. {13:27} They told him, and said, We came to the
land where you sent us; and surely it flows with milk and honey; and
this is its fruit. {13:28} However 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. {13:29} Amalek 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. {13:30} 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. {13:31} But the men who went up with him
said, We aren't able to go up against the people; for they are
stronger than we. {13:32} They 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. {13:33} 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.
{14:1} All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and
the people wept that night. {14:2} All the children of Israel murmured
against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to
them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we
had died in this wilderness! {14:3} Why does the LORD bring us to this
land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a
prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt? {14:4} They
said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into
Egypt. {14:5} Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the
assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. {14:6} Joshua
the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who
spied out the land, tore their clothes: {14:7} and they spoke to all
the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which
we passed through to spy it
