# Numbers 13 (New King James Version)
Spies Sent into Canaan

##### Chapter 13
###### 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,  
###### 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."

###### 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.  
###### 4 Now these _were_ their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur;  
###### 5 from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori;  
###### 6 from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh;  
###### 7 from the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph;  
###### 8 from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun;  
###### 9 from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu;  
###### 10 from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi;  
###### 11 from the tribe of Joseph, _that is,_ from the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi;  
###### 12 from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli;  
###### 13 from the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael;  
###### 14 from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi;  
###### 15 from the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.

###### 16 These _are_ the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun, Joshua.

###### 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,  
###### 18 and see what the land is like: whether the people who dwell in it _are_ strong or weak, few or many;  
###### 19 whether the land they dwell in _is_ good or bad; whether the cities they inhabit _are_ like camps or strongholds;  
###### 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.

###### 21 So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, near the entrance of Hamath.  
###### 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.)  
###### 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.  
###### 24 The place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the men of Israel cut down there.  
###### 25 And they returned from spying out the land after forty days.

###### 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.  
###### 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.  
###### 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.  
###### 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."

###### 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."

###### 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."  
###### 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.  
###### 33 There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight."