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one man—you send one man for the tribe of his fathers, everyone a prince among them.” <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And Moses sends them from the wilderness of Paran by the command of YHWH; all of them [are] men, [and] they are heads of the sons of Israel, <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>and these [are] their names: for the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur; <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>for the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori; <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>for the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh; <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>for the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph; <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>for the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea son of Nun; <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>for the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu; <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>for the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi; <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>for the tribe of Joseph (for the tribe of Manasseh), Gaddi son of Susi; <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>for the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli; <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>for the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael; <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>for the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vopshi; <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>for the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Machi. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>These [are] the names of the men whom Moses has sent to spy out the land; and Moses calls Hoshea son of Nun, Joshua.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And Moses sends them to spy out the land of Canaan and says to them, “Go up this [way] into the south, and you have gone up the mountain, <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and have seen the land, what it [is], and the people which is dwelling on it, whether it [is] strong or feeble, [and] whether it [is] few or many; <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and what the land [is] in which it is dwelling, whether it [is] good or bad; and what [are] the cities in which it is dwelling, whether in camps or in fortresses. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And what the land [is], whether it [is] fat or lean; whether there is wood in it or not; and you have strengthened yourselves, and have taken of the fruit of the land”; now the days [are] days of the first-fruits of grapes.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And they go up and spy out the land, from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob at the going in to Hamath; <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and they go up by the south, and come to Hebron, and there [are] Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, children of Anak (and Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt),<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>and they come to the Brook of Eshcol, and cut down a branch and one cluster of grapes there, and they carry it on a staff by two, also [some] of the pomegranates, and of the figs. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>That place has been called the Brook of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the sons of Israel cut from there.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And they return from spying out the land at the end of forty days. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And they go and come to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and they bring them and all the congregation back word, and show them the fruit of the land. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And they recount to him, and say, “We came to the land to where you have sent us, and it is indeed flowing with milk and honey—and this [is] its fruit; <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>only, surely the people which is dwelling in the land [is] strong; and the cities are fortified [and] very great; and we have also seen children of Anak there. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Amalek is dwelling in the land of the south, and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite are dwelling in the hill country, and the Canaanite is dwelling by the sea, and by the side of the Jordan.”<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And Caleb stills the people concerning Moses and says, “Let us certainly go up—and we have possessed it; for we are thoroughly able to [do] it.” <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And the men who have gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for it [is] stronger than we”; <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>and they bring out an evil account of the land which they have spied out to the sons of Israel, saying, “The land into which we passed over to spy it out is a land eating up its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in its midst [are] men of stature; <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>and there we saw the giants, sons of Anak, of the giants; and we are as grasshoppers in our own eyes—and so we were in their eyes.” <p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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