1And Jehovah spake unto Moses , saying , 2Send thou men , that they may spy out 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 prince among them . 3And Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Jehovah : all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel . 4And these were their names : Of the tribe of Reuben , Shammua the son of Zaccur . 5Of the tribe of Simeon , Shaphat the son of Hori . 6Of the tribe of Judah , Caleb the son of Jephunneh . 7Of the tribe of Issachar , Igal the son of Joseph . 8Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun . 9Of the tribe of Benjamin , Palti the son of Raphu . 10Of the tribe of Zebulun , Gaddiel the son of Sodi . 11Of the tribe of Joseph , namely , of the tribe of Manasseh , Gaddi the son of Susi . 12Of the tribe of Dan , Ammiel the son of Gemalli . 13Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael . 14Of the tribe of Naphtali , Nahbi the son of Vophsi . 15Of the tribe of Gad , Geuel the son of Machi . 16These are the names of the men that Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua .
The Spies' Exploration of Canaan
17And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan , and said unto them , Get you up this way by the South , and go up into the hill-country: 18and see the land, what it is ; and the people that dwell therein , whether they are strong or weak , whether they are few or many ; 19and what the land is that they dwell in , whether it is good or bad ; and what cities they are that they dwell in , whether in camps , or in strongholds ; 20and what the land is , whether it is fat or lean , whether there is 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 first-ripe grapes . 21So they went up , and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob , to the entrance of Hamath . 22And they went up by the South , and came unto Hebron ; and Ahiman, Sheshai , and Talmai , the children of Anak , were there . ( Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt .) 23And they came unto the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes , and they bare it upon a staff between two ; they brought also of the pomegranates , and of the figs . 24That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from thence . 25And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days .
The Report of the Spies
26And 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 showed them the fruit of the land. 27And 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 . 28Howbeit the people that dwell in the land are strong , and the cities are fortified , and very great : and moreover we saw the children of Anak there . 29Amalek dwelleth in the land of the South : and the Hittite , and the Jebusite , and the Amorite, dwell in the hill-country; and the Canaanite dwelleth by the sea , and along by the side of the Jordan . 30And 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 . 31But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people ; for they are stronger than we . 32And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out unto the children of Israel , saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out , is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof ; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature . 33And there we saw the Nephilim , the sons of Anak , who come of the Nephilim : and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers , and so we were in their sight .