Numbers:13

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* The LORD said to Moses , * "Send men to spy out the land of Canaan , which I give to the people of Israel ; from each tribe of their fathers shall you send a man , every one a leader among them ." * So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran , according to the command of the LORD , all of them men who were heads of the people of Israel . * And these were their names : From the tribe of Reuben , Sham 'mu-a the son of Zaccur ; * from the tribe of Simeon , Shaphat the son of Hori ; * from the tribe of Judah , Caleb the son of Jephun 'neh ; * from the tribe of Is 'sachar , Igal the son of Joseph ; * from the tribe of E 'phraim , Hoshe 'a the son of Nun ; * from the tribe of Benjamin , Palti the son of Raphu ; * from the tribe of Zeb 'ulun , Gad 'diel the son of Sodi ; * from the tribe of Joseph (that is from the tribe of Manas 'seh ), Gaddi the son of Susi ; * from the tribe of Dan , Am 'miel the son of Gemal 'li ; * from the tribe of Asher , Sethur the son of Michael ; * from the tribe of Naph 'tali , Nahbi the son of Vophsi ; * from the tribe of Gad , Geu 'el the son of Machi . * These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land . And Moses called Hoshe 'a the son of Nun Joshua . * Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan , and said to them , "Go up into the Negeb yonder , and go up into the hill country , * and see what the land is , and whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak , whether they are few or many , * and whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad , and whether the cities that they dwell in are camps or strongholds , * and whether the land is rich or poor , and whether there is wood in it or not . Be of good courage , and bring some of the fruit of the land ." Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes . * So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob , near the entrance of Hamath . * They went up into the Negeb , and came to Hebron ; and Ahi 'man , She 'shai , and Talmai , the descendants of Anak , were there . (Hebron was built seven years before Zo 'an in Egypt .) * And they came to the Valley of Eshcol , and cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grapes , and they carried it on a pole between two of them ; they brought also some pomegranates and figs . * That place was called the Valley of Eshcol , because of the cluster which the men of Israel cut down from there . * At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land . * And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran , at Kadesh ; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation , and showed them the fruit of the land . * And they told him , "We came to the land to which you sent us ; it flows with milk and honey , and this is its fruit . * Yet the people who dwell in the land are strong , and the cities are fortified and very large ; and besides , we saw the descendants of Anak there . * The Amal 'ekites dwell in the land of the Negeb ; the Hittites , the Jeb 'usites , and the Amorites dwell in the hill country ; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea , and along the Jordan ." * But Caleb quieted the people before Moses , and said , "Let us go up at once , and occupy it ; for we are well able to overcome it ." * Then the men who had gone up with him said , "We are not able to go up against the people ; for they are stronger than we ." * So they brought to the people of Israel an evil report of the land which they had spied out , saying , "The land , through which we have gone , to spy it out , is a land that devours its inhabitants ; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature . * And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak , who come from the Nephilim ); and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers , and so we seemed to them ."

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