Sendthou men, thatthey may search the land of Canaan, which I giveunto the children of Israel: of everytribe of theirfathersshall ye send a man, every one a ruleramongthem.
And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whetherthere be woodtherein, or not. And be ye of goodcourage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripegrapes.
And theyascended by the south, and cameuntoHebron; whereAhiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was builtsevenyearsbeforeZoan in Egypt.)
And theycameunto the brook of Eshcol, and cut downfromthence a branchwith one cluster of grapes, and theybare it between two upon a staff; and theybrought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
And theywent 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 broughtbackworduntothem, and unto all the congregation, and shewedthem the fruit of the land.
The Amalekitesdwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanitesdwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
And theybrought up an evilreport of the landwhichthey had searchedunto the children of Israel, saying, The land, throughwhich we havegone to search it, is a landthateateth up the inhabitantsthereof; and all the peoplethat we saw in it are men of a greatstature.