Numbers Chapter 13

• Numbers 13:1
  Numbers.
• Numbers 13:2
  The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
• Numbers 13:3
  “Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, ev...
• Numbers 13:4
  Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of the LORD. All of them were men who were heads of the children of Israel.
• Numbers 13:5
  These were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
• Numbers 13:6
  Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
• Numbers 13:7
  Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
• Numbers 13:8
  Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
• Numbers 13:9
  Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.
• Numbers 13:10
  Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
• Numbers 13:11
  Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
• Numbers 13:12
  Of the tribe of Joseph, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
• Numbers 13:13
  Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
• Numbers 13:14
  Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
• Numbers 13:15
  Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
• Numbers 13:16
  Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
• Numbers 13:17
  These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
• Numbers 13:18
  Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country.
• Numbers 13:19
  See the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;
• Numbers 13:20
  and 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;
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  and what the land is, whether it is fertile or poor, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be courageous, and bring some of the fruit of the land.” N...
• Numbers 13:22
  So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.
• Numbers 13:23
  They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years be...
• Numbers 13:24
  They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two. They also bro...
• Numbers 13:25
  That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.
• Numbers 13:26
  They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
• Numbers 13:27
  They went and came to Moses, to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back ...
• Numbers 13:28
  They told him, and said, “We came to the land where you sent us. Surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
• Numbers 13:29
  However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.
• Numbers 13:30
  Amalek dwells in the land of the South. The Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hill country. The Canaanite dwells by the sea, and alo...
• Numbers 13:31
  Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, “Let’s go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it!”
• Numbers 13:32
  But the men who went up with him said, “We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”
• Numbers 13:33
  They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it...
• Numbers 13:34
  There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim. We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”