Numbers 13 — WBMS
13Verse 1And there the Lord spake to Moses, and said,Verse 2Send thou men, that shall behold the land of Canaan, which I shall give to the sons of Israel; of each lineage send thou one man of the princes.Verse 3Moses did that that the Lord commanded, and sent from the desert of Paran princes, men of which these be the names.Verse 4Of the lineage of Reuben, Sham-mua, the son of Zaccur.Verse 5Of the lineage of Simeon, Shaphat, the son of Hori.Verse 6Of the lineage of Judah, Caleb, the son of Jephunneh.Verse 7Of the lineage of Issachar, Igal, the son of Joseph.Verse 8Of the lineage of Ephraim, Hoshea, the son of Nun.Verse 9Of the lineage of Benjamin, Palti, the son of Raphu.Verse 10Of the lineage of Zebulun, Gaddiel, the son of Sodi.Verse 11Of the lineage of Joseph, of the generation of Manasseh, Gaddi, the son of Susi.Verse 12Of the lineage of Dan, Ammiel, the son of Gemalli.Verse 13Of the lineage of Asher, Sethur, the son of Michael.Verse 14Of the lineage of Naphtali, Nahbi, the son of Vophsi.Verse 15Of the lineage of Gad, Geuel, the son of Machi.Verse 16These be the names of [the] men, which Moses sent to behold the land of Canaan; and Moses called Hoshea, the son of Nun, Joshua.Verse 17Therefore Moses sent them to behold the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go ye up by the south coast; and when ye come [in] to the hills,Verse 18behold ye the land, what manner land it is; and behold ye the people which is the dweller thereof, whether it is strong, either feeble, few in number, either many;Verse 19whether that land is good, either evil; what manner cities be there, walled, either without walls;Verse 20whether the land is fat, either barren, whether it is full of woods, either without trees. Be ye comforted, and bring ye to us of the fruits of that land. Soothly then the time was, when [the] grapes first ripe might be eaten.Verse 21And when they had gone up, they espied the land, from the desert of Zin till to Rehob, as men enter to Hamath.Verse 22And they went up to the south coast, and came into Hebron, where Ahiman, and Sheshai, and Talmai, the sons of Anak, were; for Hebron was made seven years before Tanis, the city of Egypt.Verse 23And they went to the strand or stream of [the] cluster, and they cutted down a scion with his grapes, which two men bare with a bearing staff; also they took of [the] pomegranates, and of the figs of that place,Verse 24which is called Nahal-eshcol, that is, the strand of grapes, or the strand of cluster, for the sons of Israel bare a cluster from thence.Verse 25And the spyers of the land [turned again], when they had compassed all the country, after forty daysVerse 26they came to Moses and Aaron, and to all the company of the sons of Israel, into the desert of Paran, which is in Kadesh. And the spyers spake to them, and showed the fruits of the land to all the multitude,Verse 27and they told, and said, We came to the land, to which thou sentest us, which land truly floweth with milk and honey, as it may be known by these fruits;Verse 28but it hath most strong dwellers, and great cities, and walled; we saw there the kindred of Anakim, that is, giants;Verse 29Amalek dwelleth there in the south; Hittites, and Jebusites, and Amorites dwell in the hilly places; forsooth Canaanites dwell beside the sea, and beside the floods of Jordan.Verse 30Among these things, or sayings, Caleb peaced the grutching of the people, that was made against Moses, and said, Go we up, and wield we the land, for we be able to get it.Verse 31Soothly the other spyers, that were with him, said, We be not able to go up to this people, for it is stronger than we.Verse 32And they spake evil of the land which they had beheld, to the sons of Israel, and said, The land that we compassed devoureth his dwellers; the people that we beheld is of large stature;Verse 33there we saw some wonders against kind, of the sons of Anak, of the kind of giants, to which we were com-parisoned, and were seen as locusts.