Numbers 13
13:1And the lord spoke to Moses, saying,
13:2Send for yourself men, and let them survey the land of the Canaanites! which I give to the sons of Israel for a possession. One man per tribe; according to the peoples of their patrimony you shall send them, all being chiefs of them.
13:3And Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, by the voice of the lord. All these men were chiefs of the sons of Israel.
13:4And these are their names. Of the tribe of Reuben was Shammua son of Zaccur.
13:5Of the tribe of Simeon was Shaphat son of Hori.
13:6Of the tribe of Judah was Caleb son of Jephunneh.
13:7Of the tribe of Issachar was Igal son of Joseph.
13:8Of the tribe of Ephraim was Oshea son of Nun.
13:9Of the tribe of Benjamin was Palti son of Raphu.
13:10Of the tribe of Zebulun was Gaddiel son of Sodi.
13:11Of the tribe of Joseph of the sons of Manasseh was Gaddi son of Susi.
13:12Of the tribe of Dan was Ammiel son of Gamalli.
13:13Of the tribe of Asher was Sethur son of Michael.
13:14Of the tribe of Naphtali was Nahbi son of Vophsi.
13:15Of the tribe of Gad was Geuel son of Machi.
13:16These are the names of the men which Moses sent to survey the land. And Moses named Oshea son of Nun -- Joshua.
13:17And Moses sent them to survey the land of Canaan. And he said to them, Ascend in this wilderness! And you shall ascend into the mountain.
13:18And you will behold the land, what it is, and the people lying in wait upon it, if they are strong or weak; or if they are few, or many.
13:19And what the land is like in which these lie in wait upon it, if it is good, or wicked; and what the cities in which these dwell in them, if in walled or in unwalled.
13:20And what the land is like, if plentiful or being neglected; if there is in it trees or not. And attending to constantly you shall take from the fruits of the land. And the days were days in spring, forerunners of the grape.
13:21And ascending they surveyed the land from the wilderness of Zin until Rehob, entering Hamath.
13:22And they ascended by the wilderness, and came unto Hebron; and there was Ahiman, and Sheshai, and Talmai, the families of Anak; and Hebron was built seven years before Tanin of Egypt.
13:23And they came unto the Ravine of the Cluster. And they beat from there a vine branch and one cluster of the grape from it; and they lifted it upon bearing poles, and some from the pomegranates, and the fig-trees.
13:24And that place they named Ravine of the Cluster, on account of the cluster of grapes which the sons of Israel beat from there.
13:25And they returned from there after surveying the land forty days.
13:26And having gone, they came to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran Kadesh. And they answered to them a word, and to all the congregation. And they showed the fruit of the land.
13:27And they described to him, and they said, We came into the land unto which you sent us, a land flowing milk and honey. And this is its fruit.
13:28Only that the nation dwelling the land is bold, and the fortified cities, being walled, are great -- very much so. And the generation of Anak we saw there.
13:29And Amalek dwells in the land, in the land to the south; and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the mountainous area; and the Canaanite dwell by the sea, and by the Jordan river.
13:30And Caleb quelled the people before Moses, and said to him, Not so, but ascending we will ascend, and we shall inherit it; for by might we shall be able to prevail against them.
13:31And the men, the ones going up with him said, We are not ascending; for in no way should we be able to ascend to that nation, for it is stronger rather than us.
13:32And they brought an astonishment of the land of which they surveyed it to the sons of Israel, saying, The land which we went in it to survey -- it is a land devouring the ones dwelling upon it; and all the people whom we see in it are exceedingly tall men.
13:33And there we saw the giants; and we were as locusts in the presence of them; yes, even so we were in the presence of them.