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Numbers 13 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Spies Sent into Canaan
The Twelve Spies Sent to Canaan
(Deut. 1:19–33 )
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:1 - And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:2 - “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a leader among them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:3 - So Moses sent them from the Wilderness of Paran according to the command of the LORD, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:4 - Now these were their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:5 - from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:6 - from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:7 - from the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:8 - from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea[fn] the son of Nun;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:9 - from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:10 - from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:11 - from the tribe of Joseph, that is, from the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:12 - from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:13 - from the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:14 - from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:15 - from the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:16 - These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea[fn] the son of Nun, Joshua.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:17 - Then Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this way into the South, and go up to the mountains,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:18 - “and see what the land is like: whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, few or many;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:19 - “whether the land they dwell in is good or bad; whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or strongholds;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:20 - “whether the land is rich or poor; and whether there are forests there or not. Be of good courage. And bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:21 - So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, near the entrance of Hamath.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:22 - And they went up through the South and came to Hebron; Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:23 - Then they came to the Valley of Eshcol, and there cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes; they carried it between two of them on a pole. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:24 - The place was called the Valley of Eshcol,[fn] because of the cluster which the men of Israel cut down there.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:25 - And they returned from spying out the land after forty days.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:26 - Now they departed and came back to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:27 - Then they told him, and said: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:28 - “Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:29 - “The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:30 - Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:31 - 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.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:32 - And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:33 - “There we saw the giants[fn] (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”
NKJV Footnotes
Septuagint and Vulgate read Oshea.
Septuagint and Vulgate read Oshea.
Literally Cluster
Hebrew nephilim
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