CLV(i)
1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying.
2 Send some men ahead of you that they may explore the land of Canaan which I am giving to the sons of Israel. One man, one each for the stock of his fathers, shall you send and everyone a prince among them.
3 So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran at the bidding of Yahweh; all of them men who were heads of the sons of Israel.
4 These were their names:for the stock of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur;"
5 for the stock of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori;"
6 for the stock of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;"
7 for the stock of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph;"
8 for the stock of Ephraim, Hosea son of Nun;"
9 for the stock of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu;"
10 for the stock of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi;"
11 for the stock of Joseph, for the stock of Manasseh, Gaddi son of Susi;"
12 for the stock of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli;"
13 for the stock of Asher, Sethur son of Michael;"
14 for the stock of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vophsi;"
15 for the stock of Gad, Geuel son of Machi.
16 These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to explore the land. And Moses called Hosea son of Nun, Joshua.
17 Moses sent them to explore the land of Canaan and said to them:Go up this way into the Negev; then you will go up the hill-country
18 and see the land, what it is, and the people dwelling in it, whether they are courageous or slack, whether they are few or many.
19 And what about the land in which they are dwelling, whether it is good or bad. And what about the cities in which they are dwelling, whether in encampments or in fortresses.
20 And what about the land, whether it is fertile or lean, whether there are trees in it or not. Encourage yourselves and take some of the fruit of the land. (Now those days were the days of the firstfruits of grapes..
21 So they went up and explored the land from the wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob toward Lebo-hamath.
22 When they went up through the Negev they came unto Hebron, where there Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the children of Anak were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan of Egypt..
23 When they came back to the watercourse of Eshcol they cut from there a pruned slip with one cluster of grapes and carried it on a slider bar by two, also some of the pomegranates and the figs.
24 That place one called the watercourse of Eshcol on account of the cluster which the sons of Israel cut from there.
25 So they returned from exploring the land at the end of forty days.
26 Then they went and came to Moses, Aaron and to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel at the wilderness of Paran, toward Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to the whole congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.
27 They related to him and said:We came to the land to which you sent us, and indeed it is gushing with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
28 Only that the people dwelling in the land are strong and the cities are defended and exceedingly great. Moreover, the children of Anak we saw there.
29 Amalek is dwelling in the land of the Negev, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Jebusite and the Amorite are dwelling in the hill-country, and the Canaanite are dwelling by the sea and by the side of the Jordan.
30 Then Caleb quelled the muttering of the people against Moses and said:We should go up, yea up and tenant it, for we are able to prevail against it.
31 Yet the men who went up with him said:We are not able to go up against the people, for they are more courageous than we.
32 Thus they brought forth among the sons of Israel disparaging muttering about the land which they had explored, saying:The land through which we passed to explore it, it is a land that is devouring its dwellers; it and all the people whom we saw in its midst were men of great measure.
33 There we saw the distinguished (the sons of Anak are part of the distinguished ones). And we became, in our own eyes, like grasshoppers; so we became in their eyes.