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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.
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