04_NUM_13_01 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
04_NUM_13_02 Send 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.
04_NUM_13_03 And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men [were] heads of the children of Israel.
04_NUM_13_04 And these [were] their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
04_NUM_13_05 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
04_NUM_13_06 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
04_NUM_13_07 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
04_NUM_13_08 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.
04_NUM_13_09 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
04_NUM_13_10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
04_NUM_13_11 Of the tribe of Joseph, [namely], of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
04_NUM_13_12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
04_NUM_13_13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
04_NUM_13_14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
04_NUM_13_15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
04_NUM_13_16 These [are] the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
04_NUM_13_17 And 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:
04_NUM_13_18 And see the land, what it [is]; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they [be] strong or weak, few or many;
04_NUM_13_19 And 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;
04_NUM_13_20 And 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.
04_NUM_13_21 So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
04_NUM_13_22 And 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.]
04_NUM_13_23 And 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.
04_NUM_13_24 The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
04_NUM_13_25 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
04_NUM_13_26 And 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 showed them the fruit of the land.
04_NUM_13_27 And 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.
04_NUM_13_28 Nevertheless 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.
04_NUM_13_29 The 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.
04_NUM_13_30 And 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.
04_NUM_13_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.
04_NUM_13_32 And 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.
04_NUM_13_33 And 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.