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And the Lord spake
unto Moses, saying,
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.
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 And these were their names: of the tribe
of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
05 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son
of Hori.
06 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of
Jephunneh.
07 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son
of Joseph.
08 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son
of Nun.
09 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, namely, 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
Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
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:
18 And see the land, what it is, and the
people that dwelleth therein, whether they be
strong or weak, few or many;
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;
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.
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21 So they went up, and searched the land
from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men
come to Hamath.
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.)
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.
24 The place was called the brook Eshcol,
because of the cluster of grapes which the
children of Israel cut down from thence.
25 And they returned from searching of the
land after forty days.
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 shewed them the
fruit of the land.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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