Moses obeyed and from the wilderness of Paran he sent out leaders, as follows: (Tribe: Leader); Reuben: Shammua son of Zaccur; Simeon: Shaphat son of Hori; Judah: Caleb son of Jephunneh; Issachar: Igal son of Joseph; Ephraim: Hoshea son of Nun; Benjamin: Palti son of Raphu; Zebulun: Gaddiel son of Sodi; Manasseh: Gaddi son of Susi; Dan: Ammiel son of Gemalli; Asher: Sethur son of Michael; Naphtali: Nahbi son of Vophsi; Gad: Geuel son of Machi
Find out whether the soil is fertile and whether the land is wooded. And be sure to bring back some of the fruit that grows there." (It was the season when grapes were beginning to ripen.)
They went first into the southern part of the land and came to Hebron, where the clans of Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of a race of giants called the Anakim, lived. (Hebron was founded seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
They came to Eshcol Valley, and there they cut off a branch which had one bunch of grapes on it so heavy that it took two men to carry it on a pole between them. They also brought back some pomegranates and figs.
to Moses, Aaron, and the whole community of Israel at Kadesh in the wilderness of Paran. They reported what they had seen and showed them the fruit they had brought.
But the people who live there are powerful, and their cities are very large and well fortified. Even worse, we saw the descendants of the giants there.
Amalekites live in the southern part of the land; Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and Canaanites live by the Mediterranean Sea and along the Jordan River."
So they spread a false report among the Israelites about the land they had explored. They said, "That land doesn't even produce enough to feed the people who live there. Everyone we saw was very tall,