13:4 Now these were their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur; 13:5 from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori; 13:6 from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh; 13:7 from the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph; 13:8 from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun; 13:9 from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu; 13:10 from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi; 13:11 from the tribe ⁸  of Joseph, namely, the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi son of Susi; 13:12 from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli; 13:13 from the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael; 13:14 from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vopshi; 13:15 from the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Maki. 13:16 These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to investigate the land. And Moses gave Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua. ⁹ 

13:17 When Moses sent ¹⁰  them to investigate the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev, ¹¹  and then go up into the hill country 13:18 and see ¹²  what the land is like, ¹³  and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, few or many, 13:19 and whether the land they live in is good or bad, and whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or fortified cities, 13:20 and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether or not there are forests in it. And be brave, ¹⁴  and bring back some of the fruit of the land.” Now it was the time of year ¹⁵  for the first ripe grapes. ¹⁶ 

13:21 So they went up and investigated the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, ¹⁷  at the entrance of Hamath. ¹⁸  13:22 When they went up through the Negev, they ¹⁹  came ²⁰  to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, ²¹  descendants of Anak, were living. (Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan ²²  in Egypt.) 13:23 When they came to the valley of Eshcol, they cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a staff ²³  between two men, as well as some of the pomegranates and the figs. 13:24 That place was called ²⁴  the Eshcol Valley, ²⁵  because of the cluster ²⁶  of grapes that the Israelites cut from there. 13:25 They returned from investigating the land after forty days.

13:26 They came back ²⁷  to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community of the Israelites in the wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. ²⁸  They reported ²⁹  to the whole community and showed the fruit of the land. 13:27 They told Moses, ³⁰  “We went to the land where you sent us. ³¹  It is indeed flowing with milk and honey, ³²  and this is its fruit. 13:28 But ³³  the inhabitants ³⁴  are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there. 13:29 The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the banks ³⁵  of the Jordan.” ³⁶ 

13:30 Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses, saying, “Let us go up ³⁷  and occupy it, ³⁸  for we are well able to conquer it.” ³⁹  13:31 But the men ⁴⁰  who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against these people, because they are stronger than we are!” 13:32 Then they presented the Israelites with a discouraging ⁴¹  report of the land they had investigated, saying, “The land that we passed through ⁴²  to investigate is a land that devours ⁴³  its inhabitants. ⁴⁴  All the people we saw there ⁴⁵  are of great stature. 13:33 We even saw the Nephilim ⁴⁶  there (the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we seemed liked grasshoppers both to ourselves ⁴⁷  and to them.” ⁴⁸