Numbers 13 (NET)

Numbers 13:1¹The Lord spoke to Moses:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:2²“Send out men to investigate the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. You are to send one man from each ancestral tribe, each one a leader among them.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:3³So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran at the command of the Lord. All of them were leaders of the Israelites.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:4⁴Now these were their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:5⁵from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:6⁶from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:7⁷from the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:8⁸from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:9⁹from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:10¹⁰from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:11¹¹from the tribe of Joseph, namely, the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi son of Susi;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:12¹²from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:13¹³from the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:14¹⁴from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vopshi;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:15¹⁵from the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Maki.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:16¹⁶These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to investigate the land. And Moses gave Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:17¹⁷When Moses sent them to investigate the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev, and then go up into the hill countryCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:18¹⁸and see what the land is like, and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, few or many,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:19¹⁹and whether the land they live in is good or bad, and whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or fortified cities,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:20²⁰and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether or not there are forests in it. And be brave, and bring back some of the fruit of the land.” Now it was the time of year for the first ripe grapes.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:21²¹So they went up and investigated the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, at Lebo Hamath.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:22²²When they went up through the Negev, they came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, descendants of Anak, were living. (Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:23²³When 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 between two men, as well as some of the pomegranates and the figs.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:24²⁴That place was called the Eshcol Valley, because of the cluster of grapes that the Israelites cut from there.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:25²⁵They returned from investigating the land after forty days.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:26²⁶They came back to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community of the Israelites in the wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They reported to the whole community and showed the fruit of the land.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:27²⁷They told Moses, “We went to the land where you sent us. It is indeed flowing with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:28²⁸But the inhabitants are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:29²⁹The 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 of the Jordan.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:30³⁰Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses, saying, “Let us go up and occupy it, for we are well able to conquer it.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:31³¹But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against these people, because they are stronger than we are!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:32³²Then they presented the Israelites with a discouraging report of the land they had investigated, saying, “The land that we passed through to investigate is a land that devours its inhabitants. All the people we saw there are of great stature.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 13:33³³We even saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we seemed like grasshoppers both to ourselves and to them.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s