Numbers 13:13-25

¹³Of the lineage of Asher, Sethur, the son of Michael.

¹⁴Of the lineage of Naphtali, Nahbi, the son of Vophsi.

¹⁵Of the lineage of Gad, Geuel, the son of Machi.

¹⁶These be the names of the men, which Moses sent to behold the land of Canaan; and Moses called Hoshea, the son of Nun, Joshua.

¹⁷Therefore Moses sent them to behold the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go ye up by the south coast; and when ye come in to the hills,

¹⁸behold ye the land, what manner land it is; and behold ye the people which is the dweller thereof, whether it is strong, either feeble, few in number, either many;

¹⁹whether that land is good, either evil; what manner cities be there, walled, either without walls;

²⁰whether the land is fat, either barren, whether it is full of woods, either without trees. Be ye comforted, and bring ye to us of the fruits of that land. Soothly then the time was, when the grapes first ripe might be eaten.

²¹And when they had gone up, they espied the land, from the desert of Zin till to Rehob, as men enter to Hamath.

²²And they went up to the south coast, and came into Hebron, where Ahiman, and Sheshai, and Talmai, the sons of Anak, were; for Hebron was made seven years before Tanis, the city of Egypt.

²³And they went to the strand or stream of the cluster, and they cutted down a scion with his grapes, which two men bare with a bearing staff; also they took of the pomegranates, and of the figs of that place,

²⁴which is called Nahal-eshcol, that is, the strand of grapes, or the strand of cluster, for the sons of Israel bare a cluster from thence.

²⁵And the spyers of the land turned again, when they had compassed all the country, after forty days