Numbers 13
Lexham English Bible
Spies Sent to Spy Out the Land of Canaan
13 And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Send for yourself men, and let them explore the land of Canaan, which I am about to give to the Israelites;[a] from each tribe of his father send one man,[b] everyone a leader among them.” 3 So Moses sent them from the desert of Paran on the command of Yahweh; all of the men were leaders[c] of the Israelites.[d] 4 And these are their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur; 5 from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori; 6 from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh; 7 from the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph; 8 from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun; 9 from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu; 10 from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi; 11 from the tribe of Joseph, from the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi son of Susi; 12 from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli; 13 from the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael; 14 from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vophsi; 15 from the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Maki. 16 These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to explore the land. And Moses called Hoshea son of Nun Joshua.
17 Moses sent them to explore the land of Canaan, and he said to them, “Go up like this to the Negev,[e] and go up into the hill country, 18 and you will see what the land is like and if the people who inhabit it are strong or weak, or whether they are few or many, 19 and whether the land that they are inhabiting is good or bad, and whether the cities they are inhabiting are camps or fortifications, 20 and whether the land is fertile or lean, and whether there are trees on it or not. You will show yourself courageous, and you will take some of the fruit of the land.” It was the time of first ripe grapes.
21 So they went up and explored the land from the desert of Zin until Rehob, at Lebo Hamath.[f] 22 They went up through the Negev[g] and came to Hebron, where[h] Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai the descendants of the Anakites were. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) 23 And they came up to the valley[i] of Eshcol, and they cut off a vine branch and one cluster of grapes from there; they carried it on a pole between two men, with pomegranates and figs. 24 That place he called the valley[j] of Eshcol on account of the cluster of grapes that the Israelites[k] cut off from there.
The Spies Return
25 They returned from exploring the land at the end of forty days.[l] 26 And they came[m] to Moses and Aaron and to the entire community of the Israelites[n] in the desert of Paran at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the community, and they showed them the fruit of the land. 27 And they told him,[o] “We came to the land that you sent us, and it is flowing of milk and honey; this is its fruit. 28 Yet the people who are inhabiting it are strong and the cities are fortified and very large; moreover, we saw the descendants of the Anakites there. 29 The Amalekites are living in the land of the Negev;[p] the Hittites, Jebusites, and the Amorites are living in the hill country; and the Canaanites are living at the sea and on the banks of the Jordan.”
30 And Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, “Surely, let us go up and let us take possession of it because surely we will be able to prevail over it.” 31 And the men who went up with him said, “We are not able to go up to the people because they are stronger than us.” 32 And they presented the report of the land that they explored to the Israelites,[q] saying, “The land that we went through to explore is a land that eats its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in its midst are men of great size.[r] 33 There we saw the Nephilim (the descendants[s] of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their eyes.”
Footnotes
- Numbers 13:2 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Numbers 13:2 Literally “one man one man from the tribe of his father”
- Numbers 13:3 Literally “heads”
- Numbers 13:3 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Numbers 13:17 An arid region south of the Judean hills
- Numbers 13:21 Or “near Hamath”
- Numbers 13:22 An arid region south of the Judean hills
- Numbers 13:22 Hebrew “and there”
- Numbers 13:23 Or “wadi”
- Numbers 13:24 Or “wadi”
- Numbers 13:24 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Numbers 13:25 Hebrew “day”
- Numbers 13:26 Hebrew “they went and came”
- Numbers 13:26 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Numbers 13:27 Hebrew “they told him and said”
- Numbers 13:29 An arid region south of the Judean hills
- Numbers 13:32 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Numbers 13:32 Literally “men of measurements”
- Numbers 13:33 Or “sons”
Numbers 13
Revised Geneva Translation
13 Then afterward, the people set out from Hazeroth and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.
2 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
3 “Send men out to search the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. You shall send a man from every tribe of their fathers, all rulers among them.”
4 Then Moses sent them out of the wilderness of Paran at the Commandment of the LORD. All those men were heads of the children of Israel.
5 Now their names are these: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur;
6 of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori;
7 of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh;
8 of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph;
9 of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun;
10 of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu;
11 of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi;
12 of the tribe of Joseph (of the tribe of Manasseh), Gaddi the son of Susi;
13 of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli;
14 of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael;
15 of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi;
16 of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
17 These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called the name of Hoshea, the son of Nun, Joshua.
18 So Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this way toward the south; and go up into the mountains.
19 “And consider the land, what it is. And the people who dwell in it, whether they are strong or weak, few or many.
20 “Also, the land that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad and what cities that they dwell in, whether they dwell in tents or in walled towns.
21 “And the land, whether it is fat or lean, whether there are trees in it or not. And be of good courage. And bring from the fruit of the land.” For then was the time of the first ripe grapes.
22 So they went up and searched out the land, from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to go to Hamath.
23 And they ascended toward the south and came to Hebron, where were Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the sons of Anak. And Hebron was built seven years before Zoan, in Egypt.
24 Then they came to the river of Eshcol. And there they cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes. And they bore it upon a bar between two of them, and brought some pomegranates and some figs.
25 That place was called the River Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down there.
26 Then, after forty days, they turned away from searching out the land.
27 And they came to Moses and to Aaron, and to all the Congregation of the children of Israel, in the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh. And they brought tidings to them and to all the Congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.
28 And they told him, and said, “We came to the land where you have sent us, and surely it flows with milk and honey. And here is some of its fruit.
29 “Nevertheless, the people are strong who dwell in the land and the cities are walled and exceedingly great. And moreover, we saw the sons of Anak there.
30 “The Amalekites dwell in the south country. And the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites dwell in the mountains. And the Canaanites dwell by the sea and by the coasts of Jordan.”
31 Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and possess it, for undoubtedly we shall overcome it.”
32 But the men who went up with him, said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than us.”
33 So they brought back a bad report of the land which they had searched for the children of Israel, saying, “The land which we have gone through to search is a land that eats up its inhabitants. For all the people we saw in it were men of great stature.
34 “For there we saw giants (the sons of Anak, who come from giants), so that we seemed in our own sight like grasshoppers. And so we were in their sight.”
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