1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 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.
3 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.
4 And
these were their
names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
5 Of
the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
6 Of
the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
7 Of
the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
8 Of
the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.
9 Of
the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
10 Of
the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
11 Of
the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh,
Gaddi the son of Susi.
12 Of
the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
13 Of
the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
14 Of
the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
15 Of
the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
16 These are the
names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea
the son of Nun Jehoshua.
17 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:
18 And
see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth
therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;
19 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;
20 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.
21 So
they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as
men come to Hamath.
22 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.)
23 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.
24 The
place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the
children of Israel cut down from thence.
25 And
they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
26 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.
27 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.
28 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.
29 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.
30 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.
31 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.
32 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.
33 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.
