Numbers 13

vayedabber Adonai el-mosheh lemor

GOD spoke to Moses, saying,

shelakh-lekha anashim veyaturu et-erets kena'an asher-ani noten livne yisra'el ish ekhad ish ekhad lematteh avotayw tishlakhu kol nasi vahem

“Send agents to scout the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelite people; send someone from each of their ancestral tribes, each one a chieftain among them.”

vayyishlakh otam mosheh mimmidbar paran al-pi Adonai kullam anashim rashe vene-yisra'el hemmah

So Moses, by GOD’s command, sent them out from the wilderness of Paran—all of them being men of consequence, leaders of the Israelites.

ve'elleh shemotam lematteh re'uven shammua ben-zakkur

And these were their names: From the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur.

lematteh shimon shafat ben-khori

From the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori.

lematteh yehudah kalev ben-yefunneh

From the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh.

lematteh yissashkhar yigal ben-yosef

From the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph.

lematteh efrayim hoshea bin-nun

From the tribe of Ephraim, Hosea son of Nun.

lematteh vinyamin palti ben-rafu

From the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Rafu.

lematteh zevulun gaddi'el ben-sodi

From the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi.

lematteh yosef lematteh menasheh gaddi ben-susi

From the tribe of Joseph, namely, the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi son of Susi.

lematteh dan ammi'el ben-gemalli

From the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli.

lematteh asher setur ben-mikha'el

From the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael.

lematteh naftali nakhbi ben-vofsi

From the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vophsi.

lematteh gad ge'u'el ben-makhi

From the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Machi.

elleh shemot ha'anashim asher-shalakh mosheh latur et-ha'arets vayyiqra mosheh lehoshea bin-nun yehoshua

These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to scout the land; but Moses changed the name of Hosea son of Nun to Joshua.

vayyishlakh otam mosheh latur et-erets kena'an vayyomer alehem alu zeh bannegev va'alitem et-hahar

When Moses sent them to scout the land of Canaan, he said to them, “Go up there into the Negeb and on into the hill country,

ure'item et-ha'arets mah-hiv ve'et-ha'am hayyoshev aleha hekhazaq hu harafeh hame'at hu im-rav

and see what kind of country it is. Are the people who dwell in it strong or weak, few or many?

umah ha'arets asher-hu yoshev bah hatovah hiv im-ra'ah umah he'arim asher-hu yoshev bahennah habbemakhanim im bemivtsarim

Is the country in which they dwell good or bad? Are the towns they live in open or fortified?

umah ha'arets hashemenah hiv im-razah hayesh-bah ets im-ayin vehitkhazzaqtem uleqakhtem mipperi ha'arets vehayyamim yeme bikkure anavim

Is the soil rich or poor? Is it wooded or not? And take pains to bring back some of the fruit of the land.”—Now it happened to be the season of the first ripe grapes.

vayya'alu vayyaturu et-ha'arets mimmidbar-tsin ad-rekhov levo khamat

They went up and scouted the land, from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, at Lebo-hamath.

vayya'alu vannegev vayyavo ad-khevron vesham akhiman sheshay vetalmay yelide ha'anaq vekhevron sheva shanim nivnetah lifne tso'an mitsrayim

They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron, where lived Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the Anakites.—Now Hebron was founded seven years before Zoan of Egypt.—

vayyavo'u ad-nakhal eshkol vayyikhretu misham zemorah ve'eshkol anavim ekhad vayyissa'uhu vammot bishnayim umin-harimmonim umin-hatte'enim

They reached the wadi Eshcol, and there they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes—it had to be borne on a carrying frame by two of them—and some pomegranates and figs.

lammaqom hahu qara nakhal eshkol al odot ha'eshkol asher-karetu misham bene yisra'el

That place was named the wadi Eshcol because of the cluster that the Israelites cut down there.

vayyashuvu mittur ha'arets miqqets arba'im yom

At the end of forty days they returned from scouting the land.

vayyelekhu vayyavo'u el-mosheh ve'el-aharon ve'el-kol-adat bene-yisra'el el-midbar paran qadeshah vayyashivu otam davar ve'et-kol-ha'edah vayyarum et-peri ha'arets

They went straight to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the wilderness of Paran, and they made their report to them and to the whole community, as they showed them the fruit of the land.

vayesapperu-lo vayyomeru banu el-ha'arets asher shelakhtanu vegam zavat khalav udevash hiv vezeh-ppiryah

This is what they told him: “We came to the land you sent us to; it does indeed flow with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

efes ki-az ha'am hayyoshev ba'arets vehe'arim betsurot gedolot me'od vegam-yelide ha'anaq ra'inu sham

However, the people who inhabit the country are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large; moreover, we saw the Anakites there.

amaleq yoshev be'erets hannegev vehakhitti vehayevusi veha'emori yoshev bahar vehakkena'ani yoshev al-hayyam ve'al yad hayyarden

Amalekites dwell in the Negeb region; Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites inhabit the hill country; and Canaanites dwell by the Sea and along the Jordan.”

vayyahas kalev et-ha'am el-mosheh vayyomer aloh na'aleh veyarashnu otah ki-yakhol nukhal lah

Caleb hushed the people before Moses and said, “Let us by all means go up, and we shall gain possession of it, for we shall surely overcome it.”

veha'anashim asher-alu immo ameru lo nukhal la'alot el-ha'am ki-khazaq hu mimmennu

But the other men who had gone up with him said, “We cannot attack that people, for it is stronger than we.”

vayyotsi'u dibbat ha'arets asher taru otah el-bene yisra'el lemor ha'arets asher avarnu vah latur otah erets okhelet yosheveha hiv vekhol-ha'am asher-ra'inu vetokhah anshe middot

Thus they spread calumnies among the Israelites about the land they had scouted, saying, “The country that we traversed and scouted is one that devours its settlers. All the people that we saw in it are of astonishingly great size;

vesham ra'inu et-hannefilim bene anaq min-hannefilim vannehi ve'enenu kakhagavim vekhen hayinu be'enehem

we saw the Nephilim there—the Anakites are part of the Nephilim—and we looked like grasshoppers to ourselves, and so we must have looked to them.”