1And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying:

2Send thou men, that they may explore the land of Kenaan, which I will give to the children of Israel: one man for each tribe of their fathers shall you send, each one a ruler among them.

3And Mosheh sent them from the wilderness of Pharan, according to the Word of the Lord. All those men were heads of the children of Israel;

4And these are their names: For the tribe of Reuben, Shamua bar Zakur;

5For the tribe of Shemeon, Shaphat bar Hori;

6For the tribe of Jehudah, Kaleb bar Jephuneh;

7For the tribe of Issakar, Igal bar Joseph;

8For the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea bar Nun;

9For the tribe of Benyamin, Phalti bar Raphu;

10for the tribe of Zebulon, Gediel bar Sodi;

11For the tribe of Joseph, the tribe of Menasheh, Gaddi bar Susi;

12For the tribe of Dan, Ammiel bar GemaIi;

13For the tribe of Asher, Sethor bar Mikael;

14For the tribe of Naphtali, Nachbi bar Vapsi;

15For the tribe of Gad, Geuel bar Machi:

16These are the names of the men whom Mosheh sent to explore the land. And Mosheh called Hoshea bar Nun Jehoshua.

17And Mosheh sent them away to explore the land of Kenaan. And he said to them, Go up hither by the south, and ascend to the mountain,

18And see the country what it is, and the people who dwell upon it, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;

19And what the land is in which they dwell, whether good or bad; and what the cities they inhabit, whether open, or walled in;

20And whether the land is rich or poor; whether it hath trees or not: and you, be of good courage, and bring of the fruits of the land. And the days were the days of the first grapes.

21And they went up, and explored the country, from the wilderness of Zin unto Rechob, to come unto Hamath.

22And they went up by the south, and came to Hebron; and there were Achiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, sons of the giants; (and Hebron was built seven years before Tanis of Mizraim.)

23And they came to the Stream of Grapes, and cut down there a branch, with one cluster of grapes, and carried it on a staff between two; and (they took also) of the pomegranates, and of the figs.

24That place was called the Stream of Grapes, on account of the grapes (athkela) which the sons of Israel cut down from thence.

25And they returned from the exploration of the country at the end of forty days.

26And they went and came to Mosheh, and to Aharon, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel at the wilderness of Pharan, at Rekam, and returned the word to them, and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.

27And they recounted to him, and said: We came to the land whither thou didst send us, and truly it doth produce milk and honey, and this is the fruit of it.

28But very mighty are the people who inhabit the land, and the cities are fortified and very great; and we saw, also, the sons of the giants there.

29The Amalkaah dwell in the land of the south, and the Hittaah and Jebusaah and Amoraah dwell in the mountain, and the Kenaanaah dwell by the sea, and upon the bank of the Jordan.

30And Kaleb quieted the people for Mosheh, and said: Going, let us go up and possess it, for we are able to (do) it:

31But the men who had gone up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.

32And they gave forth an evil report (name) about the land which they had explored to the children of Israel, saying: The country which we have passed through to search it, is a land that killeth its inhabitants;

33And all the people whom we saw in it are men of stature; and there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which are of the giants; and we looked, in our own sight, as locusts, and so were we in their eyes.