1 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, VP
2 “Send for yourself men, and they shall spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel. One man—you⁺ shall send one man for the tribe of their fathers, each one a leader among them.” VP
3 And Moses sent them from the Wilderness of Paran according to the mouth of YHWH; all of them men, they [were] heads of the sons of Israel. VP
4 And these [are] their names: For the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur. VP
5 For the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori. VP
6 For the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh. VP
7 For the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph. VP
8 For the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun. VP
9 For the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu. VP
10 For the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi. VP
11 For the tribe of Joseph, for the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi son of Susi. VP
12 For the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli. VP
13 For the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael. VP
14 For the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vophsi. VP
15 For the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Machi. VP
16 These [are] the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea son of Nun Joshua. VP
17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this [way] in the Negev, and you⁺ shall go up the hill country. VP
18 And you⁺ shall see the land, what it is, and the people, the ones dwelling in it, is he strong or weak, is he few or many; VP
19 and how is the land in which he is dwelling, is it good or bad; and how are the cities in which he is dwelling, in camps or in fortifications; VP
20 and how is the land, is it fat or lean, is there wood in it or not. And be of good courage, and bring some of the fruit of the land.” (And the time [was] the season of the firstfruits of grapes.) VP
21 And they went up and spied out the land, from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, at the going in to Hamath. VP
22 And they went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, and there [were] Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai—those born of Anak. And Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt. VP
23 And they came to the Valley of Eshcol, and there they cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them; and [they] also [brought] some of the pomegranates and figs. VP
24 That place was called the Valley of Eshcol, on account of the cluster that the men of Israel cut down there. VP
25 And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days. VP
26 And they departed and came back to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the sons of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. And to all the congregation they brought back to them word and showed them the fruit of the land. VP
27 And they recounted to him and said, “We went to the land where you sent us, and truly it is flowing with milk and honey; and this [is] its fruit! VP
28 Nevertheless indeed the people who dwell in the land [are] strong, and the cities [are] fortified, [and] very large. And moreover, we saw those born of Anak there. VP
29 The Amalekite dwell in the land of the Negev; and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hill country; and the Canaanite dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.” VP
30 And Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us surely go up and take possession of it; for we can certainly prevail in it.” VP
31 And the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people; for it [is] stronger than we.” VP
32 And they gave a bad report of the land that they had spied out unto the sons of Israel, saying, “The land that we have gone into as spies is a land that devours its dwellers, and all the people whom we saw in its midst [are] men of [great] stature. VP
33 And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak from the Nephilim! And we were in our own sight like grasshoppers; and so we were in their eyes.” VP