# Numbers 13

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Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. Yahweh said to Moses,
2. “Send men to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each ancestral tribe send one man, each one a leader among them.”
3. So at Yahweh’s command Moses sent them out from the wilderness of Paran. All of them were leading men among the Israelites.
4. These were their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur;
5. from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori;
6. from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;
7. from the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph;
8. from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun;
9. from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu;
10. from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi;
11. from the tribe of Joseph, that is, from the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi son of Susi;
12. from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli;
13. from the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael;
14. from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vophsi;
15. from the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Machi.
16. These are the names of the men Moses sent to explore the land. And Moses gave Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.
17. When Moses sent them to explore the land of Canaan, he said to them, “Go up this way into the Negev, and go up into the hill country.
18. See what the land is like, and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, few or many.
19. See whether the land they live in is good or bad, and whether the towns they live in are open camps or fortified.
20. See whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there are trees in it or not. Be courageous, and bring back some of the fruit of the land.” It was the season for the first ripe grapes.
21. So they went up and explored the land from the wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, near Lebo-hamath.
22. They went up into the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, lived. Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.
23. When they came to the Valley of Eshcol, they cut off a branch with a single cluster of grapes, and two of them carried it on a pole between them. They also brought some pomegranates and figs.
24. That place was called the Valley of Eshcol because of the cluster that the Israelites cut off there.
25. At the end of forty days they returned from exploring the land.
26. They came back to Moses and Aaron and the whole congregation of the Israelites in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back a report to them and to the whole congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.
27. They told Moses, “We went into the land where you sent us. It does flow with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
28. But the people who live in the land are strong, and the towns are fortified and very large. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.
29. The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan.”
30. Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “We should go up at once and take possession of it, for we can certainly conquer it.”
31. But the men who had gone up with him said, “We cannot go up against those people, because they are stronger than we are.”
32. So they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we passed through to explore is a land that devours those who live in it. All the people we saw there are men of great size.
33. We saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak, who come from the Nephilim—and we seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and that is how we looked to them.”

## Nearby chapters

[Numbers 12](https://www.lumin.faith/read/numbers/12.md)
[Numbers 14](https://www.lumin.faith/read/numbers/14.md)

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