Chapter 13 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 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.
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, and these were their names.
Of the tribe of Reuben, Shemua the son of Zachar, of the tribe of Simeon,
Shaphat the son of Hori, of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
of the tribe of Hezekiah, Igal the son of Joseph, of the tribe of Ephraim,
Oshea the son of Nun, of the tribe of Benjamin, Paltai the son of Raphu,
of the tribe of Zebulun, Gadiel the son of Sodai, of the tribe of Joseph,
namely of the tribe of Manasseh, Gadai the son of Susai, of the tribe of
Dan, Ammiel the son of Gamalai, of the tribe of Asher, Seether the son of
Michael, of the tribe of Naphtholi, Nabi the son of Vophsi, of the tribe of
Gad, Geul the son of Mekhi.
These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land.
And Moses called Oshea the son of Nan Jehoshua.
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.
And see the land, what it is, and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they
be strong or weak, few or many.
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 strongholds.
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 first ripe grapes.
So they went up and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin under Rehob,
as men come to Hamath.
And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron, where Ahimon,
Shishai, and Talmai the children of Anak were.
Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.
And they came under the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one
cluster of grapes, and they buried between two upon a staff.
And they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the
children of Israel cut down from thence.
And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 great stature.
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.