Bemiḏbar (Numbers) 13

Num 13:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Num 13:2 “Send men to spy out the land of Kena‛an, which I am giving to
the children of Yisra’ĕl. Send one man from each tribe of their fathers, every
one a leader among them.”
Num 13:3 And by the command of יהוה Mosheh sent them from the
Wilderness of Paran, all of them men who were heads of the children of
Yisra’ĕl.
Num 13:4 And these were their names. From the tribe of Re’uḇĕn:
Shammua, son of Zakkur.
Num 13:5 From the tribe of Shim‛on: Shaphat, son of Ḥori.
Num 13:6 From the tribe of Yehuḏah: Kalĕḇ, son of Yephunneh.
Num 13:7 From the tribe of Yissasḵar: Yiḡ’al, son of Yosĕph.
Num 13:8 From the tribe of Ephrayim: Hoshĕa, son of Nun.
Num 13:9 From the tribe of Binyamin: Palti, son of Raphu.
Num 13:10 From the tribe of Zeḇulun: Gaddi’ĕl, son of Soḏi.
Num 13:11 From the tribe of Yosĕph, from the tribe of Menashsheh: Gaddi,
son of Susi.
Num 13:12 From the tribe of Dan: Ammi’ĕl, son of Gemalli.
Num 13:13 From the tribe of Ashĕr: Shĕthur, son of Miḵa’ĕl.
Num 13:14 From the tribe of Naphtali: Naḥbi, son of Wophsi.
Num 13:15 From the tribe of Gaḏ: Geu’ĕl, son of Maḵi.
Num 13:16 These are the names of the men whom Mosheh sent to spy out the
land. And Mosheh called Hoshĕa the son of Nun, Yehoshua.
Num 13:17 And Mosheh sent them to spy out the land of Kena‛an, and said
to them, “Go up here into the South, and go up to the mountains,
Num 13:18 and see what the land is like, and the people who dwell in it,
whether strong or weak, whether few or many,
Num 13:19 and whether the land they dwell in is good or evil, whether the
cities they inhabit are in camps or strongholds,
Num 13:20 and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there are
forests there or not. And you shall be strong, and bring some of the fruit of the
land.” Now the time was the season of the first-fruits of grapes.
Num 13:21 So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of
Tsin as far as Reḥoḇ, near the entrance of Ḥamath.
Num 13:22 And they went up through the South and came to Ḥeḇron. And
Aḥiman, Shĕshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anaq, were there. Now
Ḥeḇron had been built seven years before Tso‛an in Mitsrayim.
Num 13:23 And they came to the wadi Eshkol, and cut down from there a
branch with one cluster of grapes. And they bore it between two of them on a
pole, also of the pomegranates and of the figs.
Num 13:24 That place was called the wadi Eshkol, because of the cluster
which the men of Yisra’ĕl cut down from there.
Num 13:25 And they returned from spying out the land after forty days.
Num 13:26 And they went and came to Mosheh and Aharon and all the
congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl in the Wilderness of Paran, at
Qaḏĕsh. And they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and
showed them the fruit of the land.
Num 13:27 And they reported to him, and said, “We went to the land where
you sent us. And truly, it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
Num 13:28 “But the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities
are walled, very great. And we saw the descendants of Anaq there too.
Num 13:29 “The Amalĕqites dwell in the land of the South, while the
Ḥittites and the Yeḇusites and the Amorites dwell in the mountains. And the
Kena‛anites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Yardĕn.”
Num 13:30 And Kalĕḇ silenced the people before Mosheh, and said, “Let us
go up at once and take possession, for we are certainly able to overcome it.”
Num 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.”
Num 13:32 And they gave the children of Yisra’ĕl an evil report of the land
which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as
spies is a land eating up its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it
are men of great size.
Num 13:33 “And we saw there the Nephilim, sons of Anaq, of the Nephilim.
And we were like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and so we were in their
eyes.”