Num 13:20How is the soil? Is it fertile or poor? Are there trees in it or not? Do your best to bring back some of the fruit of the land.” (It was the season for the first ripe grapes.)

Num 13:21

Num 13:21So they went up and explored the land from the Desert of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo Hamath.

Num 13:22

Num 13:22They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, lived. (Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Num 13:23

Num 13:23When they reached the Valley of Eshkol,[fn] they cut off a branch bearing a single cluster of grapes. Two of them carried it on a pole between them, along with some pomegranates and figs.

Num 13:24

Num 13:24That place was called the Valley of Eshkol because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut off there.

Num 13:25

Num 13:25At the end of forty days they returned from exploring the land.

Report on the Exploration

Num 13:26

Num 13:26They came back to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the Desert of Paran. There they reported to them and to the whole assembly and showed them the fruit of the land.

Num 13:27

Num 13:27They gave Moses this account: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit.

Num 13:28

Num 13:28But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large. We even saw descendants of Anak there.

Num 13:29

Num 13:29The Amalekites live in the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live near the sea and along the Jordan.”

Num 13:30

Num 13:30Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.”

Num 13:31

Num 13:31But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.”

Num 13:32

Num 13:32And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size.

Num 13:33

Num 13:33We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”

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(13:23)

Eshkol means cluster; also in verse 24.

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Exploring Canaan

Report on the Exploration

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