4 Mosebog 13

² "Send nogle Mænd af Sted for at undersøge Kana'ans Land, som jeg vil give Israeliterne; een Mand af hver Fædrenestamme skal I sende, og kun Mænd, der er Øverster iblandt dem!"

² “Send out for yourself men so that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I am going to give to the sons of Israel; you shall send a man from each of their fathers’ tribes, every one a leader among them.”

⁴ Deres Navne var følgende: Af Rubens Stamme Sjammua, Zakkurs Søn,

⁴ These then were their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur;

⁶ af Judas Stamme Kaleb, Jefunnes Søn,

⁶ from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh;

⁸ af Efraims Stamme Hosea, Nuns Søn,

⁸ from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun;

¹⁰ af Zebulons Stamme Gaddiel, Sodis Søn,

¹⁰ from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi;

¹² af Dans Stamme Ammiel, Gmallis Søn,

¹² from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli;

¹⁴ af Naftalis Stamme Nabi, Vofsis Søn,

¹⁴ from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi;

¹⁶ Det var Navnene på de Mænd, Moses udsendte for at undersøge Landet. Men Moses gav Hosea, Nuns Søn, Navnet Josua.

¹⁶ These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land; but Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun, Joshua.

¹⁸ og se, hvordan Landet er, og om Folket, som bor der, er stærkt eller svagt, fåtalligt eller talrigt,

¹⁸ See what the land is like, and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many.

²⁰ og om Landet er fedt eller magert, om der findes Træer deri eller ej. Vær ved godt Mod og tag noget af Landets Frugt med tilbage!" Det var netop ved den Tid, de første Druer var modne.

²⁰ How is the land, is it fat or lean? Are there trees in it or not? Make an effort then to get some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the time of the first ripe grapes.

²² Så begav de sig op i Sydlandet og kom til Hebron; der boede Ahiman, Sjesjaj og Talmaj, Anaks Efterkommere. Men Hebron var grundlagt syv År før Zoan i Ægypten.

²² When they had gone up into the Negev, they came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the descendants of Anak were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

²⁴ Man kaldte dette Sted Esjkoldalen med Hentydning til den Drueklase, Israeliterne der skar af.

²⁴ That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the sons of Israel cut down from there.

²⁶ og de kom til Moses og Aron og hele Israeliternes Menighed i Parans Ørken i Kadesj og aflagde Beretning for dem og hele Menigheden og viste dem Landets Frugt.

²⁶ they proceeded to come to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; and they brought back word to them and to all the congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.

²⁸ men stærkt er Folket, som bor i Landet, og Byerne er befæstede og meget store; ja, vi så også Efterkommere af Anak der.

²⁸ Nevertheless, the people who live in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large; and moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there.

³⁰ Da søgte Kaleb at bringe Folket til Tavshed over for Moses og sagde: "Lad os kun drage op og underlægge os det, thi vi kan sikkert tage det!"

³⁰ Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “We should by all means go up and take possession of it, for we will surely overcome it.”

³² Og de talte nedsættende til Israeliterne om Landet, som de havde undersøgt, og sagde: "Landet, som vi har rejst igennem og undersøgt, er et Land, der fortærer sine Indbyggere, og alle de Folk, vi så der, var kæmpestore.

³² So they gave out to the sons of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone, in spying it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great size.