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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 NIV</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="../">NIV</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">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/numbers/13.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Exploring Canaan</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> said to Moses, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Send some men to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each ancestral tribe send one of its leaders.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So at the <span class="name">Lord</span>’s command Moses sent them out from the Desert of Paran. All of them were leaders of the Israelites. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>These are their names:</p><div class="outlinelist"><p class="item1">from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zakkur;</p> <p class="item1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori;</p> <p class="item1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;</p> <p class="item1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>from the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph;</p> <p class="item1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun;</p> <p class="item1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu;</p> <p class="item1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi;</p> <p class="item1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>from the tribe of Manasseh (a tribe of Joseph), Gaddi son of Susi;</p> <p class="item1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli;</p> <p class="item1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>from the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael;</p> <p class="item1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vophsi;</p> <p class="item1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>from the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Maki.</p></div> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>These are the names of the men Moses sent to explore the land. (Moses gave Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.)</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>When Moses sent them to explore Canaan, he said, “Go up through the Negev and on into the hill country. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>See what the land is like and whether the people who live there are strong or weak, few or many. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>What kind of land do they live in? Is it good or bad? What kind of towns do they live in? Are they unwalled or fortified? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>How is the soil? Is it fertile or poor? Are there trees in it or not? Do your best to bring back some of the fruit of the land.” (It was the season for the first ripe grapes.)</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So they went up and explored the land from the Desert of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo Hamath. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, lived. (Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>When they reached the Valley of Eshkol, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Eshkol means cluster; also in verse 24.">a</a></sup></span> they cut off a branch bearing a single cluster of grapes. Two of them carried it on a pole between them, along with 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 Eshkol because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut off there. <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 exploring the land.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Report on the Exploration</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>They came back to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the Desert of Paran. There they reported to them and to the whole assembly 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>They gave Moses this account: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large. We even saw descendants of Anak there. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>The Amalekites live in the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live near the sea and along the Jordan.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/13-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">23</span> <span class="footnotebot"><i>Eshkol</i> means <i>cluster</i>; also in verse 24.</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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