Numbers 13
1 And the Lord said to Moses,
And there the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 Send men to get knowledge about the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from every tribe of their fathers you are to send a man, every one a chief among them.
Send men to view the land of Chanaan, which I will give to the children of Israel, one of every tribe, of the rulers.
3 And Moses sent them from the waste land of Paran as the Lord gave orders, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.
Moses did what the Lord had commanded, sending from the desert of Pharan, principal men, whose names are these:
4 And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua, the son of Zaccur.
Of the tribe of Ruben, Sammua the son of Zechur.
5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat, the son of Hori.
Of the tribe of Simeon, Saphat the son of Hurl.
6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb, the son of Jephunneh.
Of the tribe of Juda, Caleb the son of Jephone.
7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal, the son of Joseph.
Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea, the son of Nun.
Of the tribe of Ephraim, Osee the son of Nun.
9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti, the son of Raphu.
Of the tribe of Benjamin, Phalti the son of Raphu.
10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel, the son of Sodi.
Of the tribe of Zabulon, Geddiel the son of Sodi.
11 Of the tribe of Joseph, that is of the family of Manasseh, Gaddi, the son of Susi.
Of the tribe of Joseph, of the sceptre of Manasses, Gaddi the son of Susi.
12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel, the son of Gemalli.
Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur, the son of Michael
Of the tribe of Aser, Sthur the son of Michael.
14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi, the son of Vophsi.
Of the tribe of Nephtali, Nahabi the son of Vapsi.
15 Of the tribe of Gad, Gevel, the son of Machi.
Of the tribe of Gad, Guel the son of Machi.
16 These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to get knowledge about the land. And Moses gave to Hoshea, the son of Nun, the name of Joshua.
These are the names of the men, whom Moses sent to view the land: and he called Osee the son of Nun, Josue.
17 So Moses sent them to have a look at the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up into the South and into the hill-country;
And Moses sent them to view the land of Chanaan, and said to them: Go you up by the south side. And when you shall come to the mountains,
18 And see what the land is like; and if the people living in it are strong or feeble, small or great in number;
View the land, of what sort it is: and the people that are the inhabitants thereof, whether they be strong or weak: few in number or many:
19 And what sort of land they are living in, if it is good or bad; and what their living-places are, tent-circles or walled towns;
The land itself, whether it be good or bad: what manner of cities, walled or without walls:
20 And if the land is fertile or poor, and if there is wood in it or not. And be of good heart, and come back with some of the produce of the land. Now it was the time when the first grapes were ready.
The ground, fat or barren, woody or without trees. Be of good courage, and bring us of the fruits of the land. Now it was the time when the first ripe grapes are fit to be eaten.
21 So they went up and got a view of the land, from the waste land of Zin to Rehob, on the way to Hamath.
And when they were gone up, they viewed the land from the desert of Sin, unto Rohob as you enter into Emath.
22 They went up into the South and came to Hebron; and Ahiman and Sheshai and Talmai, the children of Anak, were living there. (Now the building of Hebron took place seven years before that of Zoan in Egypt.)
And they went up at the south side, and came to Hebron, where were Achiman and Sisai and Tholmai the sons of Enac. For Hebron was built seven years before Tanis the city of Egypt.
23 And they came to the valley of Eshcol, and cutting down a vine-branch with its grapes, two of them took it on a rod between them; and they took some pomegranates and figs.
And going forward as far as the torrent of the cluster of grapes, they cut off a branch with its cluster of grapes, which two men carried upon a lever. They took also of the pomegranates and of the figs of that place:
24 That place was named the valley of Eshcol because of the grapes which the children of Israel took from there.
Which was called Nehelescol, that is to say, the torrent of the cluster of grapes, because from thence the children of Israel had carried a cluster of grapes.
25 At the end of forty days they came back from viewing the land.
And they that went to spy out the land returned after forty days, having gone round all the country,
26 And they came back to Moses and Aaron and all the children of Israel, to Kadesh in the waste land of Paran; and gave an account to them and to all the people and let them see the produce of the land.
And came to Moses and Aaron and to all the assembly of the children of Israel to the desert of Pharan, which is in Cades. And speaking to them and to all the multitude, they shewed them the fruits of the land:
27 And they said, We came to the land where you sent us, and truly it is flowing with milk and honey: and here is some of the produce of it.
And they related and said: We came into the land to which thou sentest us, which in very deed floweth with milk and honey as may be known by these fruits:
28 But the people living in the land are strong, and the towns are walled and very great; further, we saw the children of Anak there.
But it hath very strong inhabitants, and the cities are great and walled. We saw there the race of Enac.
29 And the Amalekites are in the South; and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites are living in the hill-country; and the Canaanites by the sea and by the side of Jordan.
Amalec dwelleth in the south, the Hethite and the Jebusite and the Amorrhite in the mountains: but the Chanaanite abideth by the sea and near the streams of the Jordan.
30 Then Caleb made signs to the people to keep quiet, and said to Moses, Let us go up straight away and take this land; for we are well able to overcome it.
In the mean time Caleb, to still the murmuring of the people that rose against Moses, said: Let us go up and possess the land, for we shall be able to conquer it.
31 But the men who had gone up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.
But the others, that had been with him, said: No, we are not able to go up to this people, because they are stronger than we.
32 And they gave the children of Israel a bad account of the land they had been to see, saying, This land through which we went is a land causing destruction to those living in it; and all the people we saw there are men of more than common size.
And they spoke ill of the land, which they had viewed, before the children of Israel, saying: The land which we have viewed, devoureth its inhabitants: the people, that we beheld, are of a tall stature.
33 There we saw those great men, the sons of Anak, offspring of the Nephilim: and we seemed to ourselves no more than insects, and so we seemed to them.
There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant kind: in comparison of whom, we seemed like locusts.
