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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 WEB</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" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">WEB</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">World English Bible</div><div class="chap"><a name="1" id="1"></a><p class="hdg">Spies Sent to Canaan<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../deuteronomy/1.htm#19">Deuteronomy 1:19-25</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>"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." <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Yahweh: all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>These were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Of the tribe of Joseph, [namely], of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.</p> <p class="hdg">Instructions to the Spies</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/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 this way by the South, and go up into the hill country: <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>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; <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>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; <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 therein, or not. Be courageous, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes."</p> <p class="hdg">The Spies Explore Canaan</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/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, to the entrance of Hamath. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>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.)</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>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 brought] also of the pomegranates, and of the figs. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.</p> <p class="hdg">The Reports of the Spies</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/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 great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>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."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>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." <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>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." <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>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."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. 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