Numbers 13

¹The Lord spoke to Moses , saying ,

²Send men to spy out the land of Canaan , which I am giving to the people of Israel . From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man , every one a chief among them.

³So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran , according to the command of the Lord, all of them men who were heads of the people of Israel .

⁴And these were their names : From the tribe of Reuben , Shammua the son of Zaccur ;

⁵from the tribe of Simeon , Shaphat the son of Hori ;

⁶from the tribe of Judah , Caleb the son of Jephunneh ;

⁷from the tribe of Issachar , Igal the son of Joseph ;

⁸from the tribe of Ephraim , Hoshea the son of Nun ;

⁹from the tribe of Benjamin , Palti the son of Raphu ;

¹⁰from the tribe of Zebulun , Gaddiel the son of Sodi ;

¹¹from the tribe of Joseph (that is, from the tribe of Manasseh ), Gaddi the son of Susi ;

¹²from the tribe of Dan , Ammiel the son of Gemalli ;

¹³from the tribe of Asher , Sethur the son of Michael ;

¹⁴from the tribe of Naphtali , Nahbi the son of Vophsi ;

¹⁵from the tribe of Gad , Geuel the son of Machi .

¹⁶These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land . And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua .

¹⁷Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, Go up into the Negeb and go up into the hill country ,

¹⁸and see what the land is, and whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak , whether they are few or many ,

¹⁹and whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad , and whether the cities that they dwell in are camps or strongholds ,

²⁰and whether the land is rich or poor , and whether there are trees in it or not . Be of good courage and bring some of the fruit of the land . Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes .

²¹So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob , near Lebo-hamath .

²²They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron . Ahiman , Sheshai , and Talmai , the descendants of Anak , were there. ( Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt .)

²³And they came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grapes , and they carried it on a pole between two of them; they also brought some pomegranates and figs .

²⁴That place was called the Valley of Eshcol , because of the cluster that the people of Israel cut down from there .

²⁵At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land .

²⁶And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran , at Kadesh . They brought back word to them and to all the congregation , and showed them the fruit of the land .

²⁷And they told him, We came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey , and this is its fruit .

²⁸However , the people who dwell in the land are strong , and the cities are fortified and very large . And besides , we saw the descendants of Anak there .

²⁹The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb . The Hittites , the Jebusites , and the Amorites dwell in the hill country . And the Canaanites dwell by the sea , and along the Jordan .

³⁰But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said , Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.

³¹Then 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 are.

³²So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out , saying , The land , through which we have gone to spy it out , is a land that devours its inhabitants , and all the people that we saw in it are of great height .

³³And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak , who come from the Nephilim ), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers , and so we seemed to them .