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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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Numbers 13 JPS Tanakh 1917</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/jps/numbers/13.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">JPS Tanakh 1917</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">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><div align="center"><p class="hebheading">שלח</p></div><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:</div> <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>‘Send thou men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel; of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a prince among them.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And 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 that Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them: ‘Get you up here into the South, and go up into the mountains; <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth 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. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land.’—Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.— <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 unto Rehob, at the entrance to Hamath. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And they went up into the South, and came unto Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there.—Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.— <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And they came unto the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it upon a pole between two; they took 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 <span class="fn"><a href="#ftn">a</a></span>Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from thence.— <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And 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>And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto 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>And they told him, and said: ‘We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Howbeit the people that dwell in the land are fierce, 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 dwelleth in the land of the South; and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanite dwelleth by the sea, and along by the side of the Jordan.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And Caleb stilled the people toward Moses, and said: ‘We should 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 that went up with him said: ‘We are not 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>And they spread an evil report of the land which they had spied out unto the children of Israel, saying: ‘The land, through which we have passed to spy it out, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/13-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And 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.’<hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><br>{fn: a} That is, a cluster.</span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../numbers/12.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Numbers 12"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Numbers 12" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../numbers/14.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Numbers 14"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Numbers 14" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/numbers/13-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /> <table align="center" width="90%" style="max-width:900px"><tr><td> <div id="rcjsload_a957f3"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var referer="";try{if(referer=document.referrer,"undefined"==typeof referer||""==referer)throw"undefined"}catch(exception){referer=document.location.href,(""==referer||"undefined"==typeof referer)&&(referer=document.URL)}referer=referer.substr(0,700); 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