Numbers:13:1-33
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And the LORD spake unto Moses ,
saying ,
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Send thou men ,
that they may search 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 ruler among them .
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And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran :
all those men were heads of the children of Israel .
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And these were their names :
of the tribe of Reuben ,
Shammua the son of Zaccur .
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Of the tribe of Simeon ,
Shaphat the son of Hori .
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Of the tribe of Judah ,
Caleb the son of Jephunneh .
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Of the tribe of Issachar ,
Igal the son of Joseph .
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Of the tribe of Ephraim ,
Oshea the son of Nun .
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Of the tribe of Benjamin ,
Palti the son of Raphu .
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Of the tribe of Zebulun ,
Gaddiel the son of Sodi .
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Of the tribe of Joseph ,
namely ,
of the tribe of Manasseh ,
Gaddi the son of Susi .
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Of the tribe of Dan ,
Ammiel the son of Gemalli .
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Of the tribe of Asher ,
Sethur the son of Michael .
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Of the tribe of Naphtali ,
Nahbi the son of Vophsi .
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Of the tribe of Gad ,
Geuel the son of Machi .
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These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land .
And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua .
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And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan ,
and said unto them ,
Get you up this way southward ,
and go up into the mountain :
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And see the land ,
what it is ;
and the people that dwelleth therein ,
whether they be strong or weak ,
few or many ;
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And what the land is that they dwell in ,
whether it be good or bad ;
and what cities they be that they dwell in ,
whether in tents ,
or in strong holds ;
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And what the land is ,
whether it be fat or lean ,
whether there be 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 firstripe grapes .
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So they went up ,
and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob ,
as men come to Hamath .
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And they ascended by the south ,
and came unto Hebron ;
where Ahiman ,
Sheshai ,
and Talmai ,
the children of Anak ,
were . (
Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt .)
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And they came unto the brook of Eshcol ,
and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes ,
and they bare it between two upon a staff ;
and they brought of the pomegranates ,
and of the figs .
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The place was called the brook Eshcol ,
because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence .
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And they returned from searching of the land after forty days .
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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 shewed them the fruit of the land .
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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 .
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Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land ,
and the cities are walled ,
and very great :
and moreover we saw the children of Anak there .
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The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south :
and the Hittites ,
and the Jebusites ,
and the Amorites ,
dwell in the mountains :
and the Canaanites dwell by the sea ,
and by the coast of Jordan .
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And 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 .
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But the men that went up with him said ,
We be not able to go up against the people ;
for they are stronger than we .
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And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel ,
saying ,
The land ,
through which we have gone to search it ,
is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof ;
and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature .
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And there we saw the giants ,
the sons of Anak ,
which come of the giants :
and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers ,
and so we were in their sight .