Numbers 13

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 And the people marched from Haseroth, and pitched their tents in the desert of Pharan.	1 The LORD said to Moses,
2 And there the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:	2 "Send men to reconnoiter the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. You shall send one man from each ancestral tribe, all of them princes."
3 Send men to view the land of Chanaan, which I will give to the children of Israel, one of every tribe, of the rulers.	3 So Moses dispatched them from the desert of Paran, as the LORD had ordered. All of them were leaders among the Israelites;
4 Moses did what the Lord had commanded, sending from the desert of Pharan, principal men, whose names are these:	4 by name they were: Shammua, son of Zaccur, of the tribe of Reuben;
5 Of the tribe of Ruben, Sammua the son of Zechur.	5 Shaphat, son of Hori, of the tribe of Simeon;
6 Of the tribe of Simeon, Saphat the son of Hurl.	6 Caleb, son of Jephunneh, of the tribe of Judah;
7 Of the tribe of Juda, Caleb the son of Jephone.	7 Igal (son of Joseph), of the tribe of Issachar;
8 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.	8 Hoshea, son of Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim;
9 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Osee the son of Nun.	9 Palti, son of Raphu, of the tribe of Benjamin;
10 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Phalti the son of Raphu.	10 Gaddiel, son of Sodi, of the tribe of Zebulun;
11 Of the tribe of Zabulon, Geddiel the son of Sodi.	11 Gaddi, son of Susi, of the tribe of Manasseh, for the Josephites, with
12 Of the tribe of Joseph, of the sceptre of Manasses, Gaddi the son of Susi.	12 Ammiel, son of Gemalli, of the tribe of Dan;
13 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.	13 Sethur, son of Michael, of the tribe of Asher;
14 Of the tribe of Aser, Sthur the son of Michael.	14 Nahbi, son of Vophsi, of the tribe of Naphtali;
15 Of the tribe of Nephtali, Nahabi the son of Vapsi.	15 Geuel, son of Machi, of the tribe of Gad.
16 Of the tribe of Gad, Guel the son of Machi.	16 These are the names of the men whom Moses sent out to reconnoiter the land. But Hoshea, son of Nun, Moses called Joshua.
17 These are the names of the men, whom Moses sent to view the land: and he called Osee the son of Nun, Josue.	17 In sending them to reconnoiter the land of Canaan, Moses said to them, "Go up here in the Negeb, up into the highlands,
18 And Moses sent them to view the land of Chanaan, and said to them: Go you up by the south side. And when you shall come to the mountains,	18 and see what kind of land it is. Are the people living there strong or weak, few or many?
19 View the land, of what sort it is: and the people that are the inhabitants thereof, whether they be strong or weak: few in number or many:	19 Is the country in which they live good or bad? Are the towns in which they dwell open or fortified?
20 The land itself, whether it be good or bad: what manner of cities, walled or without walls:	20 Is the soil fertile or barren, wooded or clear? And do your best to get some of the fruit of the land." It was then the season for early grapes.
21 The ground, fat or barren, woody or without trees. Be of good courage, and bring us of the fruits of the land. Now it was the time when the first ripe grapes are fit to be eaten.	21 So they went up and reconnoitered the land from the desert of Zin as far as where Rehob adjoins Labo of Hamath.
22 And when they were gone up, they viewed the land from the desert of Sin, unto Rohob as you enter into Emath.	22 Going up by way of the Negeb, they reached Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, descendants of the Anakim, were living. (Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
23 And they went up at the south side, and came to Hebron, where were Achiman and Sisai and Tholmai the sons of Enac. For Hebron was built seven years before Tanis the city of Egypt.	23 They also reached the Wadi Eshcol, where they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes on it, which two of them carried on a pole, as well as some pomegranates and figs.
24 And going forward as far as the torrent of the cluster of grapes, they cut off a branch with its cluster of grapes, which two men carried upon a lever. They took also of the pomegranates and of the figs of that place:	24 It was because of the cluster the Israelites cut there that they called the place Wadi Eshcol.
25 Which was called Nehelescol, that is to say, the torrent of the cluster of grapes, because from thence the children of Israel had carried a cluster of grapes.	25 After reconnoitering the land for forty days they returned,
26 And they that went to spy out the land returned after forty days, having gone round all the country,	26 met Moses and Aaron and the whole community of the Israelites in the desert of Paran at Kadesh, made a report to them all, and showed them the fruit of the country.
27 And came to Moses and Aaron and to all the assembly of the children of Israel to the desert of Pharan, which is in Cades. And speaking to them and to all the multitude, they shewed them the fruits of the land:	27 They told Moses: "We went into the land to which you sent us. It does indeed flow with milk and honey, and here is its fruit.
28 And they related and said: We came into the land to which thou sentest us, which in very deed floweth with milk and honey as may be known by these fruits:	28 However, the people who are living in the land are fierce, and the towns are fortified and very strong. Besides, we saw descendants of the Anakim there.
29 But it hath very strong inhabitants, and the cities are great and walled. We saw there the race of Enac.	29 Amalekites live in the region of the Negeb; Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites dwell in the highlands, and Canaanites along the seacoast and the banks of the Jordan."
30 Amalec dwelleth in the south, the Hethite and the Jebusite and the Amorrhite in the mountains: but the Chanaanite abideth by the sea and near the streams of the Jordan.	30 Caleb, however, to quiet the people toward Moses, said, "We ought to go up and seize the land, for we can certainly do so."
31 In the mean time Caleb, to still the murmuring of the people that rose against Moses, said: Let us go up and possess the land, for we shall be able to conquer it.	31 But the men who had gone up with him said, "We cannot attack these people; they are too strong for us."
32 But the others, that had been with him, said: No, we are not able to go up to this people, because they are stronger than we.	32 So they spread discouraging reports among the Israelites about the land they had scouted, saying, "The land that we explored is a country that consumes its inhabitants. And all the people we saw there are huge men,
33 And they spoke ill of the land, which they had viewed, before the children of Israel, saying: The land which we have viewed, devoureth its inhabitants: the people, that we beheld, are of a tall stature.	33 veritable giants (the Anakim were a race of giants); we felt like mere grasshoppers, and so we must have seemed to them."
34 There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant kind: in comparison of whom, we seemed like locusts.