Numbers Chapter 13

Numbers Chapter 13
1 And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Send thou men out to search the land of
Canaan which I give unto the children of
Israel: of every tribe of their fathers
shall ye send a man, such as are all
rulers among them.
3 Then Moses sent them out of the
wilderness of Paran at the commandment
of the Lord: all those men were heads of
the children of Israel. 4 Also their names
are these: 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, Hoshea 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, to wit, 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 the name of Hoshea
the son of Nun, Jehoshua [Joshua]. 17 So
Moses sent them to spy out the land of
Canaan, and said unto them, Go up this
way toward the south, and go up into the
mountains,
18 And consider the land what it is, and
the people that dwell therein, whether
they be strong or weak, either few or
many,
19 Also what the land is that they dwell
in, whether it be good or bad: and what
cities they be, that they dwell in,
whether they dwell in tents, or in walled
towns:
20 And what the land is: whether it be
fat or lean, whether there be trees
therein, or not. And be of good courage,
and bring of the fruit of the land (for then
was the time of the first ripe grapes)
21 So they went up, and searched out the
land, from the wilderness of Zin unto
Rehob, to go to Hamath,
22And they ascended toward the south,
and came unto Hebron, where were
Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the sons of
Anak. And Hebron was built seven year
before Zoan in Egypt.
23 Then they came to the river of
Eshcol, and cut down thence a branch
with one cluster of grapes, and they bare
it upon a bar between two, and brought
of the pomegranates and of the figs.
24 That place was called the river
Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes,
which the children of Israel cut down
thence.
25 Then after forty days, they turned
again from searching of the land. 26 And
they went and came to Moses and to
Aaron and unto all the congregation of
the children of Israel, in the wilderness
of Paran, to Kadesh, and brought to
them, and to all the congregation tidings,
and showed them the fruit of the land.
27 And they told him, and said, We
came unto the land whither thou hast sent
us, and surely it floweth with milk and
honey: and here is of the fruit of it. 28
Nevertheless the people be strong that
dwell in the land, and the cities are
walled and exceeding great: and
moreover, we saw the sons of Anak
there.
29 The Amalekites dwell in the south
country, 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 Then Caleb stilled the people before
Moses, and said, Let us go up at once,
and possess it: for undoubtedly we shall
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 So they brought up an evil report of
the land which they had searched for the
children of Israel, saying, The land
which we have gone through to search it
out, is a land that eateth up the
inhabitants thereof: for all the people
that we saw in it, are men of great
stature.
33 For there we saw giants, the sons of
Anak, which come of the giants, so that
we seemed in our sight like
grasshoppers: and so we were in their
sight.