Numbers 13 Twelve men are sent to spy out the land of Canaan

Numbers 13
Twelve men are sent to spy out the land of Canaan

1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I will give to the children of Israel; out of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, each one of them greater among them.
3 And Moses sent them out of the wilderness of Paran, according to the word of Jehovah; all these men were heads of the children of Israel.
4 And these are their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Sachur;
5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori;
6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Jigeal, the son of Joseph;
8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun;
9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Rafu;
10 Of the tribe of Zebulun Gadiel the son of Sodi.
11 Of the tribe of Joseph, by the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi;
12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel, the son of Gamali;
13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael;
14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nabi the son of Vofsi;
15 Of the tribe of Gad, Guel the son of Mahch.
16 These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land: and unto Hoshea the son of Nun Moses called Joshua.
17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, I go up thither to the south, and go up into the mountain:
18 And see what the earth is, and the people that dwell therein; whether it is strong or weak; whether little or too much;
19 And what is the land wherein he dwells, whether good or bad: and the cities wherein he dwelleth, whether ye are in camp, or in strongholds.
20 Also the land, whether it be thick or thin, whether there be trees in it, or not: be strong, and take of the fruit of the ground. And those days were the days of the pricings of the grapes.
21 And they went up, and spied the land from the wilderness of Zin, unto Rehob, at the entrance of Hamath.
22 And they went up to the south, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, and Sheshai, and Talmai, the sons of Enak: and Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.
23 And they came to the valley of Eshcol, and they cut down a branch of the vine with a cluster of grapes, and brought two men upon a vine: as also pomegranates and figs.
24 And they called that place the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster that the children of Israel cut down from thence.
25 And they returned from spying out the land after forty days.
26 And they went and came to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, in the wilderness of Paran, unto Kadesh, and returned, and told them, and all the congregation, and showed them the fruit from the earth.
27 And they told him, and said, We went to the land to which you sent us; and truly manna milk and honey, and this is the fruit.
28 But the people that dwell in the land are mighty, and the cities mighty and mighty; and there also we saw the sons of Enak.
29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south; and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountain: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the river Jordan.
30 And Caleb shut the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up in the land, and inherit it: for we will surely prevail against it.
31 And the men that went up with him said, We can not go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.
32 And they defiled the land which they had spied before the children of Israel, saying, The land by which we are spying is the land that consumeth the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in the midst of them are men of great stature.
33 And we saw there giants, sons of the anak, descendants of the giants: and we were before our eyes like locusts, even so we were in their sight.