THE
BOOK OF NUMBERS
Numbers Chapter 13
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¶ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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Send men, that they may scout out the
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So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran as the LORD directed: all those
men were leaders of the children of
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And these were their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of
Zaccur.
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From the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
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From the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
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From the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
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From the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.
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From the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
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From the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
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From the tribe of Joseph, that is, from the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the
son of Susi.
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From the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
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From the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
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From the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
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From the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
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These are the names of the men that Moses sent to spy out the land. And
Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
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And Moses sent them to spy out the
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And see what the land is like; and if the people that dwell in it are
strong or weak, many or few;
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And whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad; and whether the
cities that they dwell in are camps or strong holds;
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And whether the land is fat or lean, whether there is wood in it, or not.
And be of good courage, and bring some of the fruit of the land. Now the time was
the time of the first-ripe grapes.
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¶ So they went up, and scouted out the land from the wilderness of Sin to
Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.
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And then went up into the south, and came to Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and
Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years
before Zoan in Egypt.)
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And they came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with
one cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them;
and they brought some of the pomegranates, and figs.
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That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes
that the children of Israel cut down there.
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And they returned from scouting out the land after forty days.
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¶ And they came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the
children of
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And they said to Moses, We came to the land where you sent us, and it surely
flows with milk and honey; and this is its fruit.
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Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities
are walled, and very large: moreover we saw the children of Anak
there.
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The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the
Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell
by the sea, and by the side of the
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And Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and
possess it; for we are well able to conquer it.
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But the men who went up with him said, We are not able to go up against those
people; for they are stronger than us.
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So they brought the children of Israel an evil report of the land that they had
scouted out, saying, The land, through which we passed as spies, is a
land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people that we saw in it are
men of a great stature.
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There we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, who come from the giants: and
we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and that is how we looked to them.