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Numbers 13

Moses sends twelve men, one from each tribe, to spy out Canaan, and renames Hoshea son of Nun Joshua. After forty days they return carrying one cluster of grapes on a pole between two men. The land does flow with milk and honey, they report, but its cities are walled and its people giants. Caleb urges them to go up at once; the others say they looked like grasshoppers.

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Key verses

  • Verse 16Moses names Hoshea son of Nun Joshua.
  • Verse 27The land flows with milk and honey.
  • Verse 30Caleb: let us go up at once, for we are well able.
  • Verse 33The fearful spies saw themselves as grasshoppers.

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,SelectedNumbers 13:1Ask

Send thou men, that they may search 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 ruler among them.SelectedNumbers 13:2Ask

And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.SelectedNumbers 13:3Ask

And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.SelectedNumbers 13:4Ask

Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.SelectedNumbers 13:5Ask

Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.SelectedNumbers 13:6Ask

Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.SelectedNumbers 13:7Ask

Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.SelectedNumbers 13:8Ask

Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.SelectedNumbers 13:9Ask

Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.SelectedNumbers 13:10Ask

Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.SelectedNumbers 13:11Ask

Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.SelectedNumbers 13:12Ask

Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.SelectedNumbers 13:13Ask

Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.SelectedNumbers 13:14Ask

Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.SelectedNumbers 13:15Ask

These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.SelectedNumbers 13:16Ask

And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:SelectedNumbers 13:17Ask

And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;SelectedNumbers 13:18Ask

And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds;SelectedNumbers 13:19Ask

And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be 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 firstripe grapes.SelectedNumbers 13:20Ask

So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.SelectedNumbers 13:21Ask

And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)SelectedNumbers 13:22Ask

And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.SelectedNumbers 13:23Ask

The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.SelectedNumbers 13:24Ask

And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.SelectedNumbers 13:25Ask

And 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 shewed them the fruit of the land.SelectedNumbers 13:26Ask

And 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.SelectedNumbers 13:27Ask

Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.SelectedNumbers 13:28Ask

The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.SelectedNumbers 13:29Ask

And 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.SelectedNumbers 13:30Ask

But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.SelectedNumbers 13:31Ask

And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.SelectedNumbers 13:32Ask

And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.SelectedNumbers 13:33Ask

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