And the Almighty YHVH (YEHOVAH) spake unto Moses, saying,
"Send you men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, every one a ruler among them".
And Moses by the commandment of the Almighty YHVH (YEHOVAH) sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.
And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain: and see the land, what it is; and the people that dweller therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many; and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds; and what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the fir stripe grapes.
So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath. And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs. The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land. And they told him, and said,
We came unto the land whither you sent us, and surely it flow with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said,
"Let us go up at once, and possess it;
for we are well able to overcome it".
But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, it is a land that eats its inhabitants; and all the people we saw in it are men of great stature. And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would Almighty YHVH (YEHOVAH) that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would Almighty YHVH (YEHOVAH) we had died in this wilderness!
And wherefore hath the Almighty YHVH (YEHOVAH) brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: and they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
"If the Almighty YHVH (YEHOVAH) delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which flow with milk and honey".
Only rebel not you against the Almighty YHVH (YEHOVAH),
neither fear you the people of the land; for they are bread for us:
their defense is departed from them,
and the Almighty YHVH (YEHOVAH) is with us:
fear them not!
But all the congregation bade stone them with stones.
And the Glory of the Almighty YHVH (YEHOVAH) appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
And the Almighty YHVH (YEHOVAH) said unto Moses,
How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
And Moses said unto the Almighty YHVH (YEHOVAH),
"Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for you brought up this people in thy might from among them;) and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that You YHVH (YEHOVAH) are among this people, that You YHVH (YEHOVAH) art seen face to face, and that thy cloud stand over them, and that You go before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night. Now if You shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, Because the Almighty YHVH (YEHOVAH) was not able to bring this people into the land which he swear unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness. And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Almighty YHVH (YEHOVAH) be great, according as You hast spoken, saying, "The Almighty YHVH (YEHOVAH) is long suffering, and of Great Mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
And the Almighty YHVH (YEHOVAH) said, I have pardoned according to your word: but as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Almighty YHVH (YEHOVAH). Because all those men which have seen My Glory, and My Miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; surely they shall not see the land which I swear unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land where into he went; and his seed shall possess it.
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