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Numbers
Chapter 13
1~~And
the Jehovah/God spoke unto Moses, saying, 2~~
"Send
you men,
that
they may search the land of Canaan
{reconnaissance mission},
which
I give unto the children of Israel.
Of
every tribe of their fathers shall you send a man,
every
one a ruler among them
{all 12 men are leaders or the leader of their tribe}."
3
And Moses by the commandment of Jehovah/God
sent
them from the desert of Paran:
all
those men were heads of the children of Israel.
4
And these were their names:
of
the tribe of Reuben {oldest son listed first},
Shammua
the son of Zaccur. 5
Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori. 6~~
Of
the tribe of Judah {the ruling tribe}, Caleb the son of Jephunneh
{the name Caleb means dog - but he is one of the heroes}. 7
Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph. 8~~
Of
the tribe of Ephraim {double portion tribe}, Oshea the son of Nun
{will be renamed 'Joshua' in verse 16 - Hebrew word for 'Jesus' -
means 'God saves}. 9
Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu. 10
Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi. 11
Of
the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh,
Gaddi
the son of Susi. 12
Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli. 13
Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael. 14
Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi. 15
Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
16
These are the names of the men
which
Moses sent to spy out the land.
And
Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Joshua
{Joshua wrote the book of Joshua}.
17
And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan,
and
said unto them,
"Get
you up this way southward,
and
go up into the mountain."
18
And see the land, what it is;
and
the people that dwell therein,
whether
they be strong or weak,
few
or many;
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;
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 first-ripe grapes.
21~~So
they went up,
and
searched the land from the desert of Zin unto Rehob,
as
men come to Hamath {far in the north}.
22~~And
they ascended by the south,
and
came unto Hebron;
where
Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were
{the children of Anak were all giants between 7 and 10 feet tall}.
(Now
Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
23~~And
they came unto the brook of Eshcol,
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.
24~~The
place was called the brook Eshcol,
because
of the cluster of grapes
which
the children of Israel cut down from thence.
25~~And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
26~~And
they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron,
and
to all the congregation of the children of Israel,
unto
the desert of Paran, to Kadesh
and
brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation,
and
showed them the fruit of the land.
{The
Unified Report}
27~~And
they told him, and said,
"We
came unto the land where you sent us,
and
surely it flowed with milk and honey
{idiom meaning the land was very prosperous}
and
this is the fruit of it."
{The
Majority Report}
28-29~~Nevertheless
the people are strong that dwell in the land,
and
the cities are walled, and very great.
And
moreover we saw the children of Anak {the giants} there. 29~~
The
Amalekites dwell in the land of the south
and
the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites,
dwell
in the mountains
and
the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
{The
Minority Report from Spiritually Mature Caleb (also Joshua's Opinion)}
30~~And
Caleb shut up the people before Moses, and said,
"Let
us go up at once {CHARGE},
and
possess it {they trusted in God NOT in what they saw}
for
we are well able to overcome it."
{Majority
Report Continues}
31~~But
the men who went up with him said,
"We
be not able to go up against the people
for
they are stronger than we."
32~~And
they brought up an evil report of the land
which
they had searched
unto
the children of Israel, saying,
"The
land, through which we have gone to search it,
is
a land that eats up the inhabitants thereof
and
all the people that we saw in it
are
men of a great stature {tall}."
33~~"And
there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak,
which
come of the giants.
And
we were in our own sight as grasshoppers,
and
so we were in their sight."
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