## Onkelos Numbers Chapter 13

###### Onkelos Numbers 13:1
[Onkelos Numbers 13:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:1)

וּמַלִּיל יְיָ עִם משֶׁה לְמֵימָר:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
And Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying;


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:2
[Onkelos Numbers 13:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:2)

שְׁלַח לָךְ גֻּבְרִין וִיאַלְּלוּן יָת אַרְעָא דִכְנַעַן דִּי אֲנָא יָהֵב לִבְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל גַּבְרָא חַד גַּבְרָא חַד לְשִׁבְטָא דַאֲבָהָתוֹהִי תְּשַׁלְּחוּן כֹּל רַבָּא דִבְהוֹן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
“Send, for yourself, men, and have them scout the Land of Cana’an, which I am giving to Bnei Yisroel; one man, one man each, for his father’s tribe you shall send them, each leader among them.”


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:3
[Onkelos Numbers 13:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:3)

וּשְׁלַח יָתְהוֹן משֶׁה מִמַּדְבְּרָא דְפָארָן עַל מֵימְרָא דַיְיָ כֻּלְּהוֹן גֻּבְרִין רֵישֵׁי בְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל אִנּוּן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Moshe sent them from the desert of Paran by the word of Adonoy; all of them [were] men of distinction, they were the heads of Bnei Yisroel.


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:4
[Onkelos Numbers 13:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:4)

וְאִלֵּין שְׁמָהַתְהוֹן לְשִׁבְטָא דִרְאוּבֵן שַׁמּוּעַ בַּר זַכּוּר:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
These are their names; for the tribe of Reuven, Shamua the son of Zaccur.


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:5
[Onkelos Numbers 13:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:5)

לְשִׁבְטָא דְשִׁמְעוֹן שָׁפָט בַּר חוֹרִי:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
For the tribe of Shimon, Shafat the son of Chori.


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:6
[Onkelos Numbers 13:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:6)

לְשִׁבְטָא דִיהוּדָה כָּלֵב בַּר יְפֻנֶּה:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
For the tribe of Yehudah, Caleiv the son of Yefuneh.


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:7
[Onkelos Numbers 13:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:7)

לְשִׁבְטָא דְּיִשָּׂשכָר יִגְאָל בַּר יוֹסֵף:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
For the tribe of Yissachar, Yigal the son of Yoseif.


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:8
[Onkelos Numbers 13:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:8)

לְשִׁבְטָא דְאֶפְרַיִם הוֹשֵׁעַ בַּר נוּן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
For the tribe of Ephraim, Hosheiah the son of Nun.


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:9
[Onkelos Numbers 13:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:9)

לְשִׁבְטָא דְבִנְיָמִן פַּלְטִי בַּר רָפוּא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
For the tribe of Binyamin, Palti the son of Raphu.


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:10
[Onkelos Numbers 13:10](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:10)

לְשִׁבְטָא דִזְבוּלֻן גַּדִּיאֵל בַּר סוֹדִי:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
For the tribe of Zevulun, Gadiel the son of Sodi.


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:11
[Onkelos Numbers 13:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:11)

לְשִׁבְטָא דְיוֹסֵף לְשִׁבְטָא דִמְנַשֶּׁה גַּדִּי בַּר סוּסִי:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
For the tribe of Yoseif, for the tribe of Menashe, Gadi the son of Susi.


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:12
[Onkelos Numbers 13:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:12)

לְשִׁבְטָא דְדָן עַמִּיאֵל בַּר גְּמַלִּי:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
For the tribe of Don, Amiel the son of Gemali.


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:13
[Onkelos Numbers 13:13](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:13)

לְשִׁבְטָא דְאָשֵׁר סְתוּר בַּר מִיכָאֵל:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
For the tribe of Asher, Sesur the son of Michael.


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:14
[Onkelos Numbers 13:14](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:14)

לְשִׁבְטָא דְנַפְתָּלִי נַחְבִּי בַּר וָפְסִי:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
For the tribe of Naftali, Nachbi the son of Vofsi.


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:15
[Onkelos Numbers 13:15](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:15)

לְשִׁבְטָא דְגָד גְּאוּאֵל בַּר מָכִי:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
For the tribe of Gad, Geu’el the son of Machi.


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:16
[Onkelos Numbers 13:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:16)

אִלֵּין שְׁמָהַת גֻּבְרַיָּא דִּי שְׁלַח משֶׁה לְאַלָּלָא יָת אַרְעָא וּקְרָא משֶׁה לְהוֹשֵׁעַ בַּר נוּן יְהוֹשֻׁעַ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
These are the names of the men whom Moshe sent to scout the land, and Moshe called Hosheiah the son of Nun, Yehoshua.


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:17
[Onkelos Numbers 13:17](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:17)

וּשְׁלַח יָתְהוֹן משֶׁה לְאַלָּלָא יָת אַרְעָא דִכְנָעַן וַאֲמַר לְהוֹן סָקוּ דָא בִּדְרוֹמָא וְתִסְקוּן לְטוּרָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Moshe sent them to scout the land of Cana’an and he said to them: “Go up this [way], to the south and go up to the mountain.


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:18
[Onkelos Numbers 13:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:18)

וְתֶחֱזוּן יָת אַרְעָא מָא הִיא וְיָת עַמָּא דְּיָתֵב עֲלַהּ הֲתַקִּיף הוּא אִם חַלָּשׁ הַזְעֵר הוּא אִם סַגִּי:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
See what the land is; and the people living on it; are they strong or weak, if they are few or many;


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:19
[Onkelos Numbers 13:19](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:19)

וּמָא אַרְעָא דִּי הוּא יָתֵב בַּהּ הֲטָבָא הִיא אִם בִּישָׁא וּמָא קִרְוַיָּא דִּי הוּא יָתֵב בְּהוֹן הַבְּפַצְחִין אִם **בִּכְרַכִּין**:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
and how is the land in which they live, is it good, or bad? And how are the cities in which they reside; are they open, or are they fortified [**walled-in**]?


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:20
[Onkelos Numbers 13:20](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:20)

וּמָא אַרְעָא הֲעַתִּירָא הִיא אִם מִסְכֵּנָא הֲאִית בַּהּ אִילָנִין אִם לָא וְתִתְקְפוּן וְתִסְּבוּן מֵאִבָּא דְאַרְעָא וְיוֹמַיָּא יוֹמֵי בִּכּוּרֵי עִנְּבִין:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
How is the land (soil) is it fat (rich) or lean (poor), does it have trees, or not? You shall strengthen yourselves, and you shall take some fruit of the land.” Those days were the days of the first ripening of the grapes.


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:21
[Onkelos Numbers 13:21](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:21)

וּסְלִיקוּ וְאַלִּילוּ יָת אַרְעָא מִמַּדבְּרָא דְצִין עַד רְחוֹב לִמְטֵי חֲמָת:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
They went up and they scouted the land from the desert of Tzin until Rechov, at the entrance of Chamas.


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:22
[Onkelos Numbers 13:22](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:22)

וּסְלִיקוּ בִדְרוֹמָא וַאֲתָא עַד חֶבְרוֹן וְתַמָּן אֲחִימָן שֵׁשַׁי וְתַלְמַי בְּנֵי גִּבָּרַ**יָּא** וְחֶבְרוֹן שְׁבַע שְׁנִין אִתְבְּנִיאַת קֳדָם **טָנַס** דְּמִצְרָיִם:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
They went up, into the southern part [of the land] and [he] came to Chevron; and there, were Achiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the offspring of the giant[**s**]. [The city of] Chevron was built seven years before the city of Tzo’an [**Tonas**] in Egypt.


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:23
[Onkelos Numbers 13:23](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:23)

וַאֲתוֹ עַד נַחֲלָא דְאַתְכָּלָא וּקְצוֹ מִתַּמָּן עוֹבַרְתָּא וְאַתְכַּל עִנְּבִין חַד וּנְטָלוֹהִי בַאֲרִיחָא בִּתְרֵין וּמִן רִמּוֹנַיָּא וּמִן תְּאֵנַיָּא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
They came until the Valley of Eshkol, and from there they cut off a branch and one cluster of grapes, and they carried it between two on a pole, [and they took] some pomegranates and some figs.


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:24
[Onkelos Numbers 13:24](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:24)

לְאַתְרָא הַהוּא קְרָא נַחְלָא דְאַתְכָּלָא עַל עֵסַק אַתְכָּלָא דִּקְצוֹ מִתַּמָּן בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
That place they called the Valley of Eshkol, because of the event of the cluster that Bnei Yisroel cut from there.


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:25
[Onkelos Numbers 13:25](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:25)

וְתָבוּ מִלְּאַלָּלָא יָת אַרְעָא מִסּוֹף אַרְבְּעִין יוֹמִין:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
They returned from spying the land, at the end of forty days.


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:26
[Onkelos Numbers 13:26](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:26)

וַאֲזָלוּ וַאֲתוֹ לְוַת משֶׁה וּלְוָת אַהֲרֹן וּלְוַת כָּל כְּנִשְׁתָּא דִבְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל לְמַדְבְּרָא דְפָארָן **לִרְקָם** וַאֲתִיבוּ יָתְהוֹן פִּתְגָּמָא וְיָת כָּל כְּנִשְׁתָּא וְאַחֲזִיאֻנּוּן יָת אִבָּא דְאַרְעָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
They went and came to Moshe and Aharon and to the entire congregation of Bnei Yisroel [that came] to the desert of Paran, in Kadeish [**to Rekom**]. They brought word back to them, and to the entire congregation, and they showed them the fruit of the land.


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:27
[Onkelos Numbers 13:27](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:27)

וְאִשְׁתָּעִיאוּ לֵיהּ וַאֲמָרוּ אֲתֵינָא לְאַרְעָא דִּי שְׁלַחְתָּנָא וְאַף עָבְדָא חֲלַב וּדְבַשׁ הִיא וְדֵין אִבַּהּ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
They recounted to him, and they said: “We came into the land into which you sent us, and it indeed flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:28
[Onkelos Numbers 13:28](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:28)

לְחוֹד אֲרֵי תַקִּיף עַמָּא דְּיָתֵב בְּאַרְעָא וְקִרְוַיָּא כְּרִיכַן רַבְרְבַן לַחֲדָא וְאַף בְּנֵי גִבָּרַ**יָּא** חֲזֵינָא תַמָּן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
However, the nation is mighty, those who inhabit the land, and the cities are greatly fortified to the utmost, and we also saw the offspring of the giant[**s**] over there.


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:29
[Onkelos Numbers 13:29](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:29)

עֲמַלְקָאָה יָתֵב בַּאֲרַע דָּרוֹמָא וְחִתָּאָה וִיבוּסָאָה וֶאֱמוֹרָאָה יָתֵב בְּטוּרָא וּכְנַעֲנָאָה יָתֵב עַל יַמָּא וְעַל כֵּיף יַרְדְּנָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Amalek dwells in the southern part of the land, the Chiti, Yevusi and Emori dwell in the mountain and the Cana’ani dwell by the sea and next to the Yardein.”


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:30
[Onkelos Numbers 13:30](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:30)

וְאַצֵּית כָּלֵב יָת עַמָּא לְמשֶׁה וַאֲמַר מֵיסַק נֵיסַק וְנִירַת יָתַהּ אֲרֵי מֵיכַל נֵיכוּל לַהּ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Caleiv silenced the people to [hear about] Moshe, and he said: “We can surely go up [to the land] and we shall possess it for we are surely able to overcome it.”


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:31
[Onkelos Numbers 13:31](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:31)

וְגֻבְרַיָּא דִּי סְלִיקוּ עִמֵּיהּ אֲמָרוּ לָא נֵיכוּל לְמֵיסַק לְוַת עַמָּא אֲרֵי תַקִּיף הוּא מִנָּנָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
But the men who went up with him said: “We are not able to go up against the nation, for they are more powerful than we.”


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:32
[Onkelos Numbers 13:32](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:32)

וְאַפִּיקוּ שׁוּם בִּישׁ עַל אַרְעָא דִּי אַלִּילוּ יָתַהּ לְוַת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל לְמֵימָר אַרְעָא דִּי עֲבַרְנָא בַהּ לְאַלָּלָא יָתַהּ אַרְעָא **מְקַטְּלַת** יַתְבָהָא הִיא וְכָל עַמָּא דִּי חֲזֵינָא בְגַוָּהּ אֱנָשִׁין דְּמִשְׁחָן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
They spread slander about the land that they had scouted, to Bnei Yisroel, saying: “The land through which we have passed to scout it, is a land which consumes [**slaughters**] its inhabitants; and every one of the people we saw in it, are men of dimensions [**stature**].


###### Onkelos Numbers 13:33
[Onkelos Numbers 13:33](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Numbers/r/13:33)

וְתַמָּן חֲזֵינָא יָת גִּבָּרַיָּא בְּנֵי **עֲנָק** מִן **גִּבָּרַיָּא** וַהֲוֵינָא בְּעֵינֵי **נַפְשָׁנָא** כְּקַמְצִין וְכֵן הֲוֵינָא בְּעֵינֵיהוֹן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
There we saw the giants, the sons of the giant [**Anok**], of the Nephilim [**giants**], and we were like grasshoppers in our [**own**] eyes, and so we appeared in their eyes.”