1 Herra sanoi Moosekselle:
2 Lähetä miehiä tutkimaan Kanaaninmaata, jonka minä annan israelilaisille. Lähettäkää sinne yksi mies joka heimosta. Kunkin heistä tulee olla sukunsa päämies.
3 Mooses lähetti heidät matkaan Paranin autiomaasta Herran ohjeen mukaisesti. He olivat kaikki israelilaisten päälliköitä.
4 Nämä olivat heidän nimensä: Ruubenin heimosta Sammua, Sakkurin poika,
5 Simeonin heimosta Safat, Horin poika,
6 Juudan heimosta Kaleb, Jefunnen poika,
7 Isaskarin heimosta Jigal, Joosefin poika,
8 Efraimin heimosta Hoosea, Nunin poika,
9 Benjaminin heimosta Palti, Rafun poika,
10 Sebulonin heimosta Gaddiel, Sodin poika,
11 Joosefista polveutuvasta Manassen heimosta Gaddi, Susin poika,
12 Danin heimosta Ammiel, Gemallin poika,
13 Asserin heimosta Setur, Mikaelin poika,
14 Naftalin heimosta Nahbi, Vofsin poika
15 ja Gadin heimosta Geuel, Makin poika.
16 Nämä olivat ne miehet, jotka Mooses lähetti tutkimaan maata. Hoosealle, Nunin pojalle, Mooses antoi nimeksi Joosua.
18 Katselkaa, millainen maa se on ja millaisia ovat siellä asuvat kansat, ovatko ne väkeviä vai heikkoja, onko asukkaita vähän vai paljon.
19 Katsokaa, onko se maa hyvä vai huono ja asuvatko ihmiset avoimissa kylissä vai muurien suojaamissa kaupungeissa.
21 He lähtivät tutkimaan maata ja vaelsivat Sinin autiomaasta Lebo-Hamatiin päin aina Rehobiin saakka.
22 He kulkivat Negevin halki ja tulivat Hebroniin, missä silloin asuivat Anakista polveutuvat Ahimanin, Sesain ja Talmain suvut. Hebron oli perustettu seitsemän vuotta ennen Egyptin Soania.
23 Sitten he tulivat Eskolinlaaksoon ja leikkasivat sieltä mukaansa viiniköynnöksen oksan, jossa oli yksi ainoa rypäleterttu. Se oli niin painava, että kaksi miestä joutui kantamaan sitä tangon varassa. He ottivat mukaansa myös granaattiomenia ja viikunoita.
24 Nimen Eskolinlaakso paikka sai sen rypäletertun mukaan, jonka israelilaiset sieltä leikkasivat.
25 Tutkittuaan maata neljänkymmenen päivän ajan miehet lähtivät paluumatkalle
26 ja tulivat takaisin Mooseksen, Aaronin ja kansan luo Kadesiin, Paranin autiomaahan. He tekivät selkoa retkestään ja näyttivät Kanaaninmaan hedelmiä.
28 Mutta siellä asuva kansa on voimakas, ja kaupungit ovat lujasti varustettuja ja hyvin suuria. Näimme siellä myös Anakin jälkeläisiä.
1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
2 Send thou men, that they may search out the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel. Ye shall send a man of every tribe of his fathers, each a prince among them.
3 And Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran: according to the commandment of Jehovah, all of them heads of the children of Israel.
4 And these are their names: for the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur;
5 for the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori;
6 for the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh;
7 for the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph;
8 for the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun;
9 for the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu;
10 for the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi;
11 for the tribe of Joseph, for the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi;
12 for the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli;
13 for the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael;
14 for the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi;
15 for the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
16 These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to search out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun, Jehoshua.
17 And Moses sent them to search out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up this way by the south and go up into the hill-country,
18 and ye shall see the land, what it is; and the people that dwell in it, whether they are strong or weak, few or many;
19 and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds;
20 and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there are trees in it, or not. And take courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first grapes.
21 And they went up, and searched out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, where one comes towards Hamath.
22 And they went up by the south, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.
23 And they came as far as the valley of Eshcol, and cut down thence a branch with one bunch of grapes, and they bore it between two upon a pole; and {they brought} of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
24 That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the grapes which the children of Israel had cut down there.
25 And they returned from searching out the land after forty days.
26 And they came, and went to Moses and to Aaron, and to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them, and to the whole assembly; and shewed them the fruit of the land.
27 And they told him, and said, We came to the land to which thou didst send us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
28 Only, the people are strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, very great; moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
29 Amalek dwells in the land of the south; and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill-country; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the side of the Jordan.
30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up boldly and possess it, for we are well able to do it.
31 But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.
32 And they brought to the children of Israel an evil report of the land which they had searched out, saying, The land, which we have passed through to search it out, is a land that eateth up its inhabitants; and all the people that we have seen in it are men of great stature;
33 and there have we seen giants-the sons of Anak are of the giants-and we were in our sight as grasshoppers, and so we were also in their sight.