Numbers 13:1-24 - Spies Sent To Spy Out The Land Of Canaan
1 Jehovah said to Moses: 2 Choose one of the leaders from each of the twelve tribes and send them as spies to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. 3 According to Jehovah's command, Moses sent these men from the Desert of Paran. All of them were leaders of the Israelites. 4 These are their names: Shammua, son of Zaccur, from the tribe of Reuben, 5 Shaphat, son of Hori, from the tribe of Simeon; 6 Caleb, son of Jephunneh, from the tribe of Judah; 7 Igal, son of Joseph, from the tribe of Issachar; 8 Hoshea, son of Nun, from the tribe of Ephraim; 9 Palti, son of Raphu, from the tribe of Benjamin; 10 Gaddiel, son of Sodi, from the tribe of Zebulun; 11 Gaddi, son of Susi, from the tribe of Joseph, that is, the tribe of Manasseh; 12 Ammiel, son of Gemalli, from the tribe of Dan; 13 Sethur, son of Michael, from the tribe of Asher; 14 Nahbi, son of Vophsi, from the tribe of Naphtali; 15 and Geuel, son of Machi, from the tribe of Gad.
16 These are the names of the men Moses sent to explore the land. But Moses gave Hoshea, son of Nun, the name Joshua.
17 When Moses sent them to explore Canaan, he told them: Go through the Negev and then into the mountain region. 18 See what the land is like and whether the people there are strong or weak, few or many. 19 Is the land they live in good or bad? Do their cities have walls around them or not? 20 Is the soil rich or poor? Does the land have trees or not? Do your best to bring back some fruit from the land. It was the season when grapes were beginning to ripen.
21 So they spied on the land from the wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, at Lebo-hamath. 22 When they went to the Negev, they came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the descendants of Anak were. Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt. 23 At Eshcol Valley they cut off a branch with only one bunch of grapes on it. They carried it on a pole between two of them. They also brought some pomegranates and figs. 24 So they called that valley Eshcol (Bunch of Grapes) because of the bunch of grapes the Israelites cut off there.