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And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Send men for you, and they shall spy out the land of Canaan which I am giving to the sons of Israel; you shall send one man for the tribe of his fathers, one man, every one a leader among them.

And by the command of Jehovah Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran they were all of them men, heads of the sons of Israel.

And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur;

of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori;

of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh;

of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph;

of the tribe of Ephraim, Joshua the son of Nun;

of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu;

of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi;

of the tribe of Joseph, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi;

of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli;

of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael;

of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi;

of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.

These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun, Joshua.

And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, You go up this way into the Negeb, and go up into the hills;

and you shall see the land, what it is , and the people who are living on it, whether it is strong or feeble; whether it is few or many;

and what the land is in which they live, whether good or bad; and what are the cities in which they live, whether in camps or in fortresses;

and what the land is , whether it is fat or lean; whether wood is in it or not. And you shall make yourselves strong and shall take of the fruit of the land. And it was the days of the firstripe grapes.

And they went up and spied out the land, from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, coming to Hamath.

And they went up into the Negeb, and came to Hebron. And Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the sons of Anak, were there. And Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

And they came in to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch and one cluster of grapes. And they carried it on a staff by two; also of the pomegranates, and of the figs.

That place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the sons of Israel cut from there.

And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.