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35 lines
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# Chapter 13
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1 The Lord spoke to Moses:
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2 “Send men to scout out the land of Canaan I am giving to the Israelites. Send one man who is a leader among them from each of their ancestral tribes.”
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3 Moses sent them from the Wilderness of Paran at the Lord’s command. All the men were leaders in Israel.
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4 These were their names:
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Shammua son of Zaccur from the tribe of Reuben;
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5 Shaphat son of Hori from the tribe of Simeon;
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6 Caleb son of Jephunneh from the tribe of Judah;
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7 Igal son of Joseph from the tribe of Issachar;
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8 Hoshea son of Nun from the tribe of Ephraim;
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9 Palti son of Raphu from the tribe of Benjamin;
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10 Gaddiel son of Sodi from the tribe of Zebulun;
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11 Gaddi son of Susi from the tribe of Manasseh (from the tribe of Joseph);
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12 Ammiel son of Gemalli from the tribe of Dan;
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13 Sethur son of Michael from the tribe of Asher;
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14 Nahbi son of Vophsi from the tribe of Naphtali;
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15 Geuel son of Machi from the tribe of Gad.
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16 These were the names of the men Moses sent to scout out the land, and Moses renamed Hoshea son of Nun, Joshua.
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17 When Moses sent them to scout out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up this way to the Negev, then go up into the hill country.
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18 See what the land is like, and whether the people who live there are strong or weak, few or many.
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19 Is the land they live in good or bad? Are the cities they live in encampments or fortifications?
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20 Is the land fertile or unproductive? Are there trees in it or not? Be courageous. Bring back some fruit from the land.” It was the season for the first ripe grapes.
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21 So they went up and scouted out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob near the entrance to Hamath.
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22 They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were living. Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.
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23 When they came to Eshcol Valley, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes, which was carried on a pole by two men. They also took some pomegranates and figs.
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24 That place was called Eshcol Valley because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut there.
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25 At the end of forty days they returned from scouting out the land.
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26 The men went back to Moses, Aaron, and the entire Israelite community in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for them and the whole community, and they showed them the fruit of the land.
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27 They reported to Moses, “We went into the land where you sent us. Indeed it is flowing with milk and honey, and here is some of its fruit.
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28 However, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We also saw the descendants of Anak there.
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29 The Amalekites are living in the land of the Negev; the Hethites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan.”
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30 Then Caleb quieted the people in the presence of Moses and said, “Let’s go up now and take possession of the land because we can certainly conquer it!”
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31 But the men who had gone up with him responded, “We can’t attack the people because they are stronger than we are!”
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32 So they gave a negative report to the Israelites about the land they had scouted: “The land we passed through to explore is one that devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw in it are men of great size.
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33 We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim! To ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and we must have seemed the same to them.” |