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1 ADONAI said to Moshe,
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 "Send men on your behalf to reconnoiter the land of Kena'an, which I am giving to the people of Isra'el. From each ancestral tribe send someone who is a leader in his tribe."
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Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.
3 Moshe dispatched them from the Pa'ran Desert as ADONAI had ordered; all of them were leading men among the people of Isra'el.
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And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.
4 Here are their names: from the tribe of Re'uven, Shamua the son of Zakur;
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And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
5 from the tribe of Shim'on, Shafat the son of Hori;
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Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
6 from the tribe of Y'hudah, Kalev the son of Y'funeh;
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Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
7 from the tribe of Yissakhar, Yig'al the son of Yosef;
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Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
8 from the tribe of Efrayim, Hoshea the son of Nun;
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Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.
9 from the tribe of Binyamin, Palti the son of Rafu;
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Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
10 from the tribe of Z'vulun, Gadi'el the son of Sodi;
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Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
11 from the tribe of Yosef, that is, from the tribe of M'nasheh, Gadi the son of Susi;
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Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
12 from the tribe of Dan, 'Ammi'el the son of G'malli;
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Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
13 from the tribe of Asher, S'tur the son of Mikha'el;
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Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
14 from the tribe of Naftali, Nachbi the son of Vofsi; and
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Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
15 from the tribe of Gad, Ge'u'el the son of Makhi.
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Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
16 These are the names of the men Moshe sent out to reconnoiter the land. Moshe gave to Hoshea the son of Nun the name Y'hoshua.
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These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
17 Moshe sent them to reconnoiter the land of Kena'an, instructing them, "Go on up to the Negev and into the hills,
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And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:
18 and see what the land is like. Notice the people living there, whether they are strong or weak, few or many;
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And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;
19 and what kind of country they live in, whether it is good or bad; and what kind of cities they live in, open or fortified.
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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 strong holds;
20 See whether the land is fertile or unproductive and whether there is wood in it or not. Finally, be bold enough to bring back some of the fruit of the land." When they left it was the season for the first grapes to ripen.
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And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, 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 firstripe grapes.
21 They went up and reconnoitered the land from the Tzin Desert to Rechov near the entrance to Hamat.
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So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
22 They went up into the Negev and arrived at Hevron; Achiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the 'Anakim, lived there. (Hevron was built seven years before Tzo'an in Egypt.)
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And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
23 They came to the Eshkol Valley; and there they cut off a branch bearing one cluster of grapes, which they carried on a pole between two of them; they also took pomegranates and figs.
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And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
24 That place was called the Valley of Eshkol [cluster], because of the cluster which the people of Isra'el cut down there.
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The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
25 Forty days later, they returned from reconnoitering the land
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And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
26 and went to Moshe, Aharon and the entire community of the people of Isra'el at Kadesh in the Pa'ran Desert, where they brought back word to them and to the entire community and showed them the fruit of the land.
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And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.
27 What they told him was this: "We entered the land where you sent us, and indeed it does flow with milk and honey - here is its fruit!
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And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
28 However the people living in the land are fierce, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the 'Anakim there.
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Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
29 'Amalek lives in the area of the Negev; the Hitti, the Y'vusi and the Emori live in the hills; and the Kena'ani live by the sea and alongside the Yarden."
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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 coast of Jordan.
30 Kalev silenced the people around Moshe and said, "We ought to go up immediately and take possession of it; there is no question that we can conquer it."
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And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
31 But the men who had gone with him said, "We can't attack those people, because they are stronger than we are";
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But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
32 and they spread a negative report about the land they had reconnoitered for the people of Isra'el by saying, "The land we passed through in order to spy it out is a land that devours its inhabitants. All the people we saw there were giant!
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And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search 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 We saw the N'filim, the descendants of 'Anak, who was from the N'filim; to ourselves we looked like grasshoppers by comparison, and we looked that way to them too!"
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And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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