Numbers 13
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 Send for thee men, and let them spy
the land of the Chananites, which I give to the sons of Israel for a
possession; one man for a tribe, thou shalt send them away according to their
families, every one of them a prince.
3 And Moses sent them out of the
wilderness of Pharan by the word of the Lord; all these
were the princes of the sons of Israel.
4 And these
are their names: of the tribe of Ruben, Samuel the
son of Zachur. 5 Of the tribe of
Symeon, Saphat the son of Suri. 6 Of
the tribe of Judah, Chaleb the son of Jephonne.
7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Ilaal the
son of Joseph. 8 Of the tribe of
Ephraim, Ause the son of Naue. 9 Of
the tribe of Benjamin, Phalti the son of Raphu.
10 Of the tribe of Zabulon, Gudiel
the son of Sudi. 11 Of the tribe of
Joseph of the sons of Manasse, Gaddi the son of Susi.
12 Of the tribe of Dan, Amiel the son
of Gamali. 13 Of the tribe of Aser,
Sathur the son of Michael. 14 Of the
tribe of Nephthali, Nabi the son of Sabi.
15 Of the tribe of Gad, Gudiel the
son of Macchi. 16 These
are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out
the land; and Moses called Ause the son of Naue, Joshua.
17 And Moses sent them to spy out the
land of Chanaan, and said to them, Go up by this wilderness; and ye shall go
up to the mountain, 18 and ye shall
see the land, what it is, and the people that dwells on it, whether it is
strong or weak, or whether they are few or many.
19 And what the land is on which they
dwell, whether it is good or bad; and what the cities
are wherein these dwell, whether they dwell in walled
cities or unwalled.
20 And what the land is, whether rich
or
aGr. q. d. neglected.poor; whether there are trees in it or no: and ye shall persevere and take of
the fruits of the land: and the days were the days of
spring, the forerunners of the grape.
21 And they went up and surveyed the
land from the wilderness of Sin to Rhoob, as men go in to Æmath.
22 And they went up by the
wilderness, and departed as far as Chebron; and there
was Achiman, and Sessi, and Thelami, the progeny of
Enach. Now Chebron was built seven years before Tanin of Egypt.
23 And they came to the valley of the
cluster and surveyed it; and they cut down thence a bough and one cluster of
grapes upon it, and bore it on staves, and
they took of the pomegranates and the figs.
24 And they called that place, The
valley of the cluster, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut
down from thence. 25 And they
returned from thence, having surveyed the land, after forty days.
26 And they proceeded and came to
Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the
wilderness of Pharan Cades; and they brought word to them and to all the
congregation, and they shewed the fruit of the land:
27 and they reported to him, and
said, We came into the land into which thou sentest us, a land flowing with
milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
28 Only the nation that dwells upon
it is bold, and they have very great and strong walled towns, and we saw there
the children of Enach. 29 And Amalec
dwells in the land toward the south: and the Chettite and the Evite, and the
Jebusite, and the Amorite dwells in the hill country: and the Chananite dwells
by the sea, and by the river Jordan.
30 And Chaleb stayed the people from
speaking
bOr, to.before Moses, and said to him, Nay, but we will go up by all means, and will
inherit it, for we shall surely prevail against them.
31 But the men that went up together
with him said, We
cGr. do not.will not go up, for we shall not by any means be able to go up against the
nation, for it is much stronger than we.
32 And they brought a horror of that
land which they surveyed upon the children of Israel, saying, The land which
we passed by to survey it, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the
people whom we saw in it are men of extraordinary stature.
33 And there we saw the giants; and
we were before them as locusts, yea even so were we before them.