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1 And the Lord said to Moses,
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3 And Hashem spoke unto Moshe, saying,
2 Send men to get knowledge about the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from every tribe of their fathers you are to send a man, every one a chief among them.
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Send thou anashim, that they may spy out Eretz Kena’an, which I give unto the Bnei Yisroel: of every tribe of their avot shall ye send a man, every one a nasi among them.
3 And Moses sent them from the waste land of Paran as the Lord gave orders, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.
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And Moshe by the mouth of Hashem sent them from the Midbar Paran; all those men were Roshei Bnei Yisroel.
4 And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua, the son of Zaccur.
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And these were their shmot: of the tribe of Reuven, Shammua ben Zaccur.
5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat, the son of Hori.
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Of the tribe of Shim’on, Shaphat ben Chori.
6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb, the son of Jephunneh.
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Of the tribe of Yehudah, Kalev ben Yephunneh.
7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal, the son of Joseph.
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Of the tribe of Yissakhar, Yigal ben Yosef.
8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea, the son of Nun.
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Of the tribe of Ephrayim, Hoshea ben Nun.
9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti, the son of Raphu.
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Of the tribe of Binyamin, Palti ben Raphu.
10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel, the son of Sodi.
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Of the tribe of Zevulun, Gaddiel ben Sodi.
11 Of the tribe of Joseph, that is of the family of Manasseh, Gaddi, the son of Susi.
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Of the tribe of Yosef, namely, of the tribe of Menasheh, Gaddi ben Susi.
12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel, the son of Gemalli.
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Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel ben Gemalli.
13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur, the son of Michael
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Of the tribe of Asher, Setur ben Michael.
14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi, the son of Vophsi.
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Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nachbi ben Vophsi.
15 Of the tribe of Gad, Gevel, the son of Machi.
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Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel ben Machi.
16 These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to get knowledge about the land. And Moses gave to Hoshea, the son of Nun, the name of Joshua.
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These are the shmot of the men which Moshe sent to spy out the land. And Moshe called Hoshea ben Nun Yehoshua [See Zecharyah 6:11-12 on the personal name of Moshiach in prophecy].
17 So Moses sent them to have a look at the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up into the South and into the hill-country;
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And Moshe sent them to spy out Eretz Kena’an, and said unto them, Get you up to the Negev, and go up into the mountain;
18 And see what the land is like; and if the people living in it are strong or feeble, small or great in number;
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And see the land, what it is like, and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;
19 And what sort of land they are living in, if it is good or bad; and what their living-places are, tent-circles or walled towns;
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And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strongholds;
20 And if the land is fertile or poor, and if there is wood in it or not. And be of good heart, and come back with some of the produce of the land. Now it was the time when the first grapes were ready.
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And what the land is, whether it be fertile or barren, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first ripe grapes.
21 So they went up and got a view of the land, from the waste land of Zin to Rehob, on the way to Hamath.
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So they went up, and searched the land from the midbar of Tzin unto Rechov, as men come to Chamat.
22 They went up into the South and came to Hebron; and Ahiman and Sheshai and Talmai, the children of Anak, were living there. (Now the building of Hebron took place seven years before that of Zoan in Egypt.)
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And they ascended by the south, and came unto Chevron; where Achiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the Anak, were. (Now Chevron was built seven shanim before Tzoan in Mitzrayim.)
23 And they came to the valley of Eshcol, and cutting down a vine-branch with its grapes, two of them took it on a rod between them; and they took some pomegranates and figs.
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And they came unto the Wadi Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with cluster of anavim echad, and they bore it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
24 That place was named the valley of Eshcol because of the grapes which the children of Israel took from there.
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The place was called the Wadi Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the Bnei Yisroel cut down from thence.
25 At the end of forty days they came back from viewing the land.
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And they returned from searching of the land after arba’im days.
26 And they came back to Moses and Aaron and all the children of Israel, to Kadesh in the waste land of Paran; and gave an account to them and to all the people and let them see the produce of the land.
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And they went and came to Moshe, and to Aharon, and to all the congregation of the Bnei Yisroel, unto the Midbar Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto Kol HaEdah, and showed them the pri ha’aretz.
27 And they said, We came to the land where you sent us, and truly it is flowing with milk and honey: and here is some of the produce of it.
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And they told him, and said, We came unto ha’aretz where thou didst send us, and truly it floweth with cholov and devash; and this is the fruit of it.
28 But the people living in the land are strong, and the towns are walled and very great; further, we saw the children of Anak there.
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Nevertheless the people are strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and gedolot me’od; and moreover we saw the Anak there.
29 And the Amalekites are in the South; and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites are living in the hill-country; and the Canaanites by the sea and by the side of Jordan.
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The Amalek dwell in the eretz of the Negev; and the Chitti, and the Yevusi, and the Emori, dwell in the hills; and the Kena’ani dwell by the yam, and by the bank of the Yarden.
30 Then Caleb made signs to the people to keep quiet, and said to Moses, Let us go up straight away and take this land; for we are well able to overcome it.
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And Kalev silenced HaAm before Moshe, and said, Let us go up at once, and take possession of it; for we are well able to overcome it.
31 But the men who had gone up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.
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But the anashim that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people; for they are chazak (stronger) than we.
32 And they gave the children of Israel a bad account of the land they had been to see, saying, This land through which we went is a land causing destruction to those living in it; and all the people we saw there are men of more than common size.
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And they spread an evil report of HaAretz which they had explored unto the Bnei Yisroel, saying, HaAretz, through which we have gone to explore it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
33 There we saw those great men, the sons of Anak, offspring of the Nephilim: and we seemed to ourselves no more than insects, and so we seemed to them.
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And there we saw the Nephilim, the Bnei Anak, which come of the Nephilim; and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
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