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title: Numbers 13
slug: kjv/numbers-13
createdAt: 2024-08-04T04:05:28.954Z
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**1 **And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, **2 **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 **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 **And these *were* their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. **5 **Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori. **6 **Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. **7 **Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph. **8 **Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun. **9** Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu. **10 **Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi. **11 **Of the tribe of Joseph, *namely*, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. **12 **Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli. **13 **Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael. **14 **Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi. **15 **Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. **16 **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 **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 the land, what it *is*; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they *be* strong or weak, few or many; **19 **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 **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 **So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath. **22 **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 **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 **The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.

**25 **And they returned from searching of the land after forty days. **26 **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 **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 **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 **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 **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 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 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 **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.