And Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying;

“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.”

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.

These are their names; for the tribe of Reuven, Shamua the son of Zaccur.

For the tribe of Shimon, Shafat the son of Chori.

For the tribe of Yehudah, Caleiv the son of Yefuneh.

For the tribe of Yissachar, Yigal the son of Yoseif.

For the tribe of Ephraim, Hosheiah the son of Nun.

For the tribe of Binyamin, Palti the son of Raphu.

For the tribe of Zevulun, Gadiel the son of Sodi.

For the tribe of Yoseif, for the tribe of Menashe, Gadi the son of Susi.

For the tribe of Don, Amiel the son of Gemali.

For the tribe of Asher, Sesur the son of Michael.

For the tribe of Naftali, Nachbi the son of Vofsi.

For the tribe of Gad, Geu’el the son of Machi.

These are the names of the men whom Moshe sent to scout the land, and Moshe called Hosheiah the son of Nun, Yehoshua.

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.

See what the land is; and the people living on it; are they strong or weak, if they are few or many;

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]?

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.

They went up and they scouted the land from the desert of Tzin until Rechov, at the entrance of Chamas.

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.

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.

That place they called the Valley of Eshkol, because of the event of the cluster that Bnei Yisroel cut from there.

They returned from spying the land, at the end of forty days.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.”

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.”

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].

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.”