Parashah 37 Shalach L’kha - 13:1-15:41 send for yourself, send forth men, if you please, suit yourself
YHWH (יהוה) Suggests That Mosheh Send Spies to the Promised Land
13:1(i) And YHWH (יהוה) spake unto Mosheh, saying,
13:2 Send for yourself men, that they may search the Eretz Kenaan, which I give unto benai Yisrael: of every tribe of their avot shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.
13:3 And Mosheh by the commandment of YHWH (יהוה) sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men [were] heads of benai Yisrael.
13:4 And these [were] their names: of the tribe of Reuven (ראוּבן), Shamua Ben Zakur.
13:5 Of the tribe of Shimon: Shafat Ben Hori.
13:6 Of the tribe of Yehudah: Kalev (כּלב) Ben Yefuneh.
13:7 Of the tribe of Yissakhar: Yigal Ben Yosef.
13:8 Of the tribe of Efrayim: Hoshea (הושׁע) Ben Nun.
13:9 Of the tribe of BenYamin: Palti Ben Rafu.
13:10 Of the tribe of Zevulun: Gadi'el Ben Sodi.
13:11 Of the tribe of Yosef, [namely], of the tribe of Menasheh, Gadi Ben Susi.
13:12 Of the tribe of Dan: Ammi'el Ben Gemalli.
13:13 Of the tribe of Asher: Setur Ben Mikha'el.
13:14 Of the tribe of Naftali: Nachvi Ben Vofsi.
13:15 Of the tribe of Gad: Ge'u'el Ben Makhi.
13:16 These [are] the names of the men which Mosheh sent to spy out the land. And Mosheh called Hoshea (הושׁע salvation) Ben Nun Yehoshua.
13:17 And Mosheh sent them to spy out the Eretz Kenaan, and said unto them, Get you up this [way] southward, and go up into the mountain:
13:18 And see the land, what it [is]; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they [be] strong or weak, few or many;
13:19 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;
13:20 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 firstripe grapes.
13:21(ii) So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehov, as men come to Hamat.
13:22 And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, benai Anak, [were]. (Now Hevron was built seven years before Zoan in Mitzrayim.)
13:23 And they came unto the brook of Eshkol, 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.
13:24 The place was called the brook Eshkol, because of the cluster of grapes which benai Yisrael cut down from thence.
13:25 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
13:26 And they went and came to Mosheh, and to Aharon, and to all the congregation of benai Yisrael, 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.
13:27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this [is] the fruit of it.
13:28 Nevertheless the people [be] strong that dwell in the land, and the cities [are] walled, [and] very great: and moreover we saw benai Anak there.
13:29 The Amalekites dwell in the eretz negev (south): and the Hittites, and the Yevusites, and the Emorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Kena'ani dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Yardan.
13:30 And Kalev (כּלב) stilled the people before Mosheh, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
13:31 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.
13:32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto benai Yisrael, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search 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.
13:33 And there we saw the giants, benai Anak, [which come] of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
