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Spies Sent to Canaan
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Twelve Scouts Explore Canaan
The LORD now said to Moses,
The LORD now said to Moses,
Send thou men, that they may search out the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel. Ye shall send a man of every tribe of his fathers, each a prince among them.
“Send out men to explore the land of Canaan, the land I am giving to the Israelites. Send one leader from each of the twelve ancestral tribes.”
And Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran: according to the commandment of Jehovah, all of them heads of the children of Israel.
So Moses did as the LORD commanded him. He sent out twelve men, all tribal leaders of Israel, from their camp in the wilderness of Paran.
And these are their names: for the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur;
These were the tribes and the names of their leaders:
| Tribe | Leader |
| Reuben | Shammua son of Zaccur |
for the tribe of Joseph, for the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi;
Manasseh son of JosephGaddi son of Susi
These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to search out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun, Jehoshua.
These are the names of the men Moses sent out to explore the land. (Moses called Hoshea son of Nun by the name Joshua.)
Instructions to the Spies
And Moses sent them to search out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up this way by the south and go up into the hill-country,
And Moses sent them to search out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up this way by the south and go up into the hill-country,
Moses gave the men these instructions as he sent them out to explore the land: “Go north through the Negev into the hill country.
and ye shall see the land, what it is; and the people that dwell in it, whether they are strong or weak, few or many;
See what the land is like, and find out whether the people living there are strong or weak, few or many.
and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds;
See what kind of land they live in. Is it good or bad? Do their towns have walls, or are they unprotected like open camps?
and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there are trees in it, or not. And take courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first grapes.
Is the soil fertile or poor? Are there many trees? Do your best to bring back samples of the crops you see.” (It happened to be the season for harvesting the first ripe grapes.)
The Spies Explore Canaan
And they went up, and searched out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, where one comes towards Hamath.
And they went up, and searched out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, where one comes towards Hamath.
So they went up and explored the land from the wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, near Lebo-hamath.
And they went up by the south, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.
Going north, they passed through the Negev and arrived at Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai — all descendants of Anak — lived. (The ancient town of Hebron was founded seven years before the Egyptian city of Zoan.)
And they came as far as the valley of Eshcol, and cut down thence a branch with one bunch of grapes, and they bore it between two upon a pole; and [they brought] of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
When they came to the valley of Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes so large that it took two of them to carry it on a pole between them! They also brought back samples of the pomegranates and figs.
That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the grapes which the children of Israel had cut down there.
That place was called the valley of Eshcol (which means “cluster”), because of the cluster of grapes the Israelite men cut there.
The Reports of the Spies
And they returned from searching out the land after forty days.
And they returned from searching out the land after forty days.
The Scouting Report
After exploring the land for forty days, the men returned
And they came, and went to Moses and to Aaron, and to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them, and to the whole assembly; and shewed them the fruit of the land.
to Moses, Aaron, and the whole community of Israel at Kadesh in the wilderness of Paran. They reported to the whole community what they had seen and showed them the fruit they had taken from the land.
And they told him, and said, We came to the land to which thou didst send us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
This was their report to Moses: “We entered the land you sent us to explore, and it is indeed a bountiful country — a land flowing with milk and honey. Here is the kind of fruit it produces.
Only, the people are strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, very great; moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
But the people living there are powerful, and their towns are large and fortified. We even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak!
Amalek dwells in the land of the south; and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill-country; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the side of the Jordan.
And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up boldly and possess it, for we are well able to do it.
But Caleb tried to quiet the people as they stood before Moses. “Let’s go at once to take the land,” he said. “We can certainly conquer it!”
But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.
But the other men who had explored the land with him disagreed. “We can’t go up against them! They are stronger than we are!”
And they brought to the children of Israel an evil report of the land which they had searched out, saying, The land, which we have passed through to search it out, is a land that eateth up its inhabitants; and all the people that we have seen in it are men of great stature;
So they spread this bad report about the land among the Israelites: “The land we traveled through and explored will devour anyone who goes to live there. All the people we saw were huge.