Old Testament · Law
Numbers chapter 13
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spoke to Moses:“Send men to the land of , which I’m giving to the Israelites. Send one leader from each .”So Moses sent them out from the , as Yahweh had commanded. All of them were leaders among the Israelites.Here are their names: From the tribe of — Shammua son of Zaccur.From the tribe of Simeon — Shaphat son of Hori.From the tribe of Judah — son of Jephunneh.From the tribe of Issachar — Igal son of Joseph.From the tribe of Ephraim — son of Nun.From the tribe of Benjamin — Palti son of Raphu.From the tribe of Zebulun — Gaddiel son of Sodi.From — Gaddi son of Susi.From the tribe of Dan — Ammiel son of Gemalli.From the tribe of Asher — Sethur son of Michael.From the tribe of Naphtali — Nahbi son of Vophsi.From the tribe of Gad — Geuel son of Maki.These are the names of the men Moses sent to scout out the land. And Moses gave Hoshea son of Nun a new name: .When Moses sent them to scout out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through and on into the .See what the land is like, and whether the people living there are strong or weak, few or many.Is the land they live in good or bad? Are the towns they live in ?Is the soil rich or poor? Are there trees on it or not? and bring back some of the land’s fruit.” (It was the season when .)So they went up and scouted the land from the all the way to Rehob, near .They went up through the Negev and arrived at , where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai — — were living. (Hebron had been built seven years before in Egypt.)When they reached the , they cut down a branch with between them. They also brought back pomegranates and figs.That place was called the Valley because of the cluster the Israelites cut down there.After , they returned from scouting out the land.They came back to Moses, Aaron, and the whole Israelite community at in the Paran wilderness. They gave their report to the whole community and showed them the fruit from the land.They told Moses, “We went into the land where you sent us, and it really does ! Here’s the fruit to prove it.But the people living there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and huge. On top of that, we saw descendants of Anak there.The live in the Negev. The live in the hill country. And the live along the coast and along the Jordan River.”But Caleb the people standing before Moses and said, “We should go up right now and of it — we can absolutely do this!”But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people — they’re stronger than we are.”So they spread a among the Israelites about the land they had scouted. “The land we explored ,” they said. “And all the people we saw were enormous.We even saw the there — the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim. We felt like next to them, and that’s how they saw us too.”