22
They went up by the South, and came to Hevron; and Achiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of `Anak, were there. (Now Hevron was built seven years before Tzo`an in Mitzrayim.)
23
They came to the valley of Eshkol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two; [they brought] also of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
24
That place was called the valley of Eshkol, because of the cluster which the children of Yisra'el cut down from there.
25
They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
26
They went and came to Moshe, and to Aharon, and to all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them, and to all the congregation, and shown them the fruit of the land.
27
They told him, and said, We came to the land where you sent us; and surely it flows with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
28
However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, [and] very great: and moreover we saw the children of `Anak there.
29
`Amalek dwells in the land of the South: and the Hittite, and the Yevusi, and the Amori, dwell in the hill-country; and the Kana`ani dwells by the sea, and along by the side of the Yarden.
30
Kalev stilled the people before Moshe, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
31
But the men who went up with him said, We aren't able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
32
They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Yisra'el, saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up the inhabitants of it; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.