1And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2Send 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.
3And Moses by the commandment of the LORD
sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those
men were heads
of the children of Israel.
4And these were their
names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of
Zaccur.
5Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of
Hori.
6Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of
Jephunneh.
7Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of
Joseph.
8Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of
Nun.
9Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of
Raphu.
10Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of
Sodi.
11Of the tribe of Joseph, namely,
of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
12Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of
Gemalli.
13Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of
Michael.
14Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of
Vophsi.
15Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
16These are the
names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the
land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
17And 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:
18And see the land, what it is;
and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong
or weak, few or many;
19And 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;
20And 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.
21So they went up, and searched the land from
the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to
Hamath.
22And 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.)
23And 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.
24The place was called the brook Eshcol,
because of the cluster of grapes which the children
of Israel cut down from thence.
25And they returned from searching of the
land after forty days.
26And 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.
27And 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.
28Nevertheless 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.
29The 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.
30And 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.
31But the men that went up with him said, We
be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger
than we.
32And 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.
33And 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.