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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Numbers 13 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/numbers/13.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/numbers/13-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Numbers 13</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../numbers/12.htm" title="Numbers 12">◄</a> Numbers 13 <a href="../numbers/14.htm" title="Numbers 14">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/numbers/13.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Spies Sent into Canaan</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> spoke to Moses, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a chief among them.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, all of them men who were heads of the people of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And these were their names: From the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>from the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>from the tribe of Joseph (that is, from the tribe of Manasseh), Gaddi the son of Susi; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>from the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>from the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, “Go up into the Negeb and go up into the hill country, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and see what the land is, and whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad, and whether the cities that they dwell in are camps or strongholds, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there are trees in it or not. Be of good courage and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, near Lebo-hamath. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And they came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them; they also brought some pomegranates and figs. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>That place was called the Valley of Eshcol,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Eshcol means cluster">a</a></sup></span> because of the cluster that the people of Israel cut down from there.</p> <p class="heading">Report of the Spies</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And they told him, “We came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country. And the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Then 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 are.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">24</span> <i class="catch-word">Eshcol</i> means <i>cluster</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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