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1. The Spies Explore Canaan

   (Deuteronomy 1:19–25)

2. 1ENGOJBAnd Hashem spoke unto Moshe, saying,BSBBSB: And the LORD said to Moses,
3. 2ENGOJBSend thou anashim, that they may spy out Eretz Kena'an, which I give unto the Bnei Yisroel: of every tribe of their avot shall ye send a man, every one a nasi among them.BSBBSB: “Send out for yourself men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each of their fathers’ tribes send one man who is a leader among them.”
4. 3ENGOJBAnd Moshe by the mouth of Hashem sent them from the Midbar Paran; all those men were Roshei Bnei Yisroel.BSBBSB: So at the command of the LORD, Moses sent them out from the Wilderness of Paran. All the men were leaders of the Israelites,
5. 4ENGOJBAnd these were their shmot: of the tribe of Reuven, Shammua ben Zakur.BSBBSB: and these were their names: From the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur;
6. 5ENGOJBOf the tribe of Shim'on, Shaphat ben Chori.BSBBSB: from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori;
7. 6ENGOJBOf the tribe of Yehudah, Kalev ben Yephunneh.BSBBSB: from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;
8. 7ENGOJBOf the tribe of Yissakhar, Yigal ben Yosef.BSBBSB: from the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph;
9. 8ENGOJBOf the tribe of Ephrayim, Hoshea ben Nun.BSBBSB: from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun;
10. 9ENGOJBOf the tribe of Binyamin, Palti ben Raphu.BSBBSB: from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu;
11. 10ENGOJBOf the tribe of Zevulun, Gaddiel ben Sodi.BSBBSB: from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi;
12. 11ENGOJBOf the tribe of Yosef, namely, of the tribe of Menasheh, Gaddi ben Susi.BSBBSB: from the tribe of Manasseh (a tribe of Joseph), Gaddi son of Susi;
13. 12ENGOJBOf the tribe of Dan, Ammi'el ben Gemalli.BSBBSB: from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli;
14. 13ENGOJBOf the tribe of Asher, Setur ben Micha'el.BSBBSB: from the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael;
15. 14ENGOJBOf the tribe of Naphtali, Nachbi ben Vophsi.BSBBSB: from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vophsi;
16. 15ENGOJBOf the tribe of Gad, Geuel ben Machi.BSBBSB: and from the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Machi.
17. 16ENGOJBThese are the shmot of the men which Moshe sent to spy out the land. And Moshe called Hoshea ben Nun Yehoshua.BSBBSB: These were the names of the men Moses sent to spy out the land; and Moses gave to Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.
18. 17ENGOJBAnd Moshe sent them to spy out Eretz Kena'an, and said unto them, Get you up to the Negev, and go up into the mountain;BSBBSB: When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev and into the hill country.
19. 18ENGOJBAnd see the land, what it is like, and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;BSBBSB: See what the land is like and whether its people are strong or weak, few or many.
20. 19ENGOJBAnd 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 strongholds;BSBBSB: Is the land where they live good or bad? Are the cities where they dwell open camps or fortifications?
21. 20ENGOJBAnd what the land is, whether it be fertile or barren, 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 first ripe grapes.BSBBSB: Is the soil fertile or unproductive? Are there trees in it or not? Be courageous and bring back some of the fruit of the land.” (It was the season for the first ripe grapes.)
22. 21ENGOJBSo they went up, and searched the land from the midbar of Tzin unto Rechov, as men come to Chamat.BSBBSB: So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.
23. 22ENGOJBAnd they ascended by the south, and came unto Chevron; where Achiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the Anak, were. (Now Chevron was built seven shanim before Tzoan in Mitzrayim.)BSBBSB: They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.
24. 23ENGOJBAnd they came unto the Wadi Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with cluster of anavim echad, and they bore it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.BSBBSB: When they came to the Valley of Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes, which they carried on a pole between two men. They also took some pomegranates and figs.
25. 24ENGOJBThe place was called the Wadi Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the Bnei Yisroel cut down from thence.BSBBSB: Because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut there, that place was called the Valley of Eshcol.

26. The Reports of the Spies

27. 25ENGOJBAnd they returned from searching of the land after arba'im days.BSBBSB: After forty days the men returned from spying out the land,
28. 26ENGOJBAnd they went and came to Moshe, and to Aharon, and to all the congregation of the Bnei Yisroel, unto the Midbar Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto Kol HaEdah, and showed them the pri ha'aretz.BSBBSB: and they went back to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for the whole congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.
29. 27ENGOJBAnd they told him, and said, We came unto ha'aretz where thou didst send us, and truly it floweth with cholov and devash; and this is the fruit of it.BSBBSB: And they gave this account to Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit!
30. 28ENGOJBNevertheless the people are strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and gedolot me'od; and moreover we saw the Anak there.BSBBSB: Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.
31. 29ENGOJBThe Amalek dwell in the eretz of the Negev; and the Chitti, and the Yevusi, and the Emori, dwell in the hills; and the Kena'ani dwell by the yam, and by the bank of the Yarden.BSBBSB: The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan.”
32. 30ENGOJBAnd Kalev silenced HaAm before Moshe, and said, Let us go up at once, and take possession of it; for we are well able to overcome it.BSBBSB: Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “We must go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly conquer it!”
33. 31ENGOJBBut the anashim that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people; for they are chazak (stronger) than we.BSBBSB: But the men who had gone up with him replied, “We cannot go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are!”
34. 32ENGOJBAnd they spread an evil report of HaAretz which they had explored unto the Bnei Yisroel, saying, HaAretz, through which we have gone to explore it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.BSBBSB: So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature.
35. 33ENGOJBAnd there we saw the Nephilim, the Bnei Anak, which come of the Nephilim; and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.BSBBSB: We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”

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