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1 the LORD said to Moses:
2 Send men to explore the land of Canaan, which I'm about to give to the Israelites. Send one man each from his father's clan, every one a prince among them.
3 According to the LORD's command, Moses sent these men from the Desert of Paran. All of them were leaders of the Israelites.
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 Moses sent to explore the land. But Moses gave Hoshea, son of Nun, the name Joshua.
17 When Moses sent them to explore Canaan, he told them: "Go through the Negev and then into the mountain region.
18 "See what the land is like and whether the people there are strong or weak, few or many.
19 »Is the land they live in good or bad? Do their cities have walls around them or not?
20 "Is the soil rich or poor? Does the land have trees or not? Do your best to bring back some fruit from the land." It was the season when grapes were beginning to ripen.
21 So they went up and explored the land from the wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob toward Lebo-hamath.
22 They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai the descendants of the Anakites were. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
23 Then they reached the valley of Eshcol, where they had cut a branch with a cluster of grapes and carried it on a pole between two men, also pomegranates and figs.
24 That place he called the valley of Eshcol on account of the cluster of grapes that the Israelites cut off from there.
25 At the end of forty days they came back from viewing the land.
26 They returned to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel at Kadesh in the Desert of Paran. They gave their report and showed them the fruit from the land.
27 And they told him, "We came to the land that you sent us, and it is flowing of milk and honey; this is its fruit.
28 »The people who live there are strong. The cities have walls and are very large. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.
29 Amalek lives in the land of the Negev while the Hittite, Jebusite, and Amorite live in the hill-country. The Canaanite lives by the sea and on the bank of the Jordan.
30 Caleb silenced the people for Moses and said: Let's go up and possess the land for we can definitely conquer it.
31 The men who had gone with him said: "We cannot attack those people! They are too strong for us!
32 »They spread lies among the Israelites about the land they had explored. They said: The land we explored is one that devours those who live there. All the people we saw there are very tall.
33 There we saw the Nephilim (the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their eyes."