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the soil fertile or poor? Are there many trees? Do your best to bring back
samples of the crops you see.” (It happened to be the season for harvesting
the first ripe grapes.)
21 So they went up and explored the land from the wilderness of Zin as
far as Rehob, near Lebo-hamath. 22 Going north, they passed through the
Negev and arrived at Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai—all descendants of Anak—lived. (The ancient town of Hebron was founded seven
years before the Egyptian city of Zoan.) 23 When they came to the valley of
Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes so large that
it took two of them to carry it on a pole between them! They also brought
back samples of the pomegranates and figs. 24 That place was called the valley of Eshcol (which means “cluster”), because of the cluster of grapes the
Israelite men cut there.
The Scouting Report
25 After exploring the land for forty days, the men returned 26 to Moses,
Aaron, and the whole community of Israel at Kadesh in the wilderness of
Paran. They reported to the whole community what they had seen and
showed them the fruit they had taken from the land. 27 This was their report to Moses: “We entered the land you sent us to explore, and it is indeed
a bountiful country—a land flowing with milk and honey. Here is the kind
of fruit it produces. 28 But the people living there are powerful, and their
towns are large and fortified. We even saw giants there, the descendants of
Anak! 29 The Amalekites live in the Negev, and the Hittites, Jebusites, and
Amorites live in the hill country. The Canaanites live along the coast of the
Mediterranean Sea* and along the Jordan Valley.”
30 But Caleb tried to quiet the people as they stood before Moses. “Let’s go
at once to take the land,” he said. “We can certainly conquer it!”
31 But the other men who had explored the land with him disagreed.
“We can’t go up against them! They are stronger than we are!” 32 So they
spread this bad report about the land among the Israelites: “The land we
traveled through and explored will devour anyone who goes to live there.
All the people we saw were huge. 33 We even saw giants* there, the descendants of Anak. Next to them we felt like grasshoppers, and that’s what
they thought, too!”
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The People Rebel
Then the whole community began weeping aloud, and they cried all
night. 2 Their voices rose in a great chorus of protest against Moses and
Aaron. “If only we had died in Egypt, or even here in the wilderness!” they
complained. 3 “Why is the Lord taking us to this country only to have us die in
battle? Our wives and our little ones will be carried off as plunder! Wouldn’t
it be better for us to return to Egypt?” 4 Then they plotted among themselves,
“Let’s choose a new leader and go back to Egypt!”
5 Then Moses and Aaron fell face down on the ground before the whole
community of Israel. 6 Two of the men who had explored the land, Joshua
son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, tore their clothing. 7 They said to
all the people of Israel, “The land we traveled through and explored is a
wonderful land! 8 And if the Lord is pleased with us, he will bring us safely
into that land and give it to us. It is a rich land flowing with milk and honey.
9 Do not rebel against the Lord, and don’t be afraid of the people of the land.
They are only helpless prey to us! They have no protection, but the Lord is
with us! Don’t be afraid of them!”
10 But the whole community began to talk about stoning Joshua and
Caleb. Then the glorious presence of the Lord appeared to all the Israelites
13:29 Hebrew the sea.
13:33 Hebrew nephilim.
