15. from the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Maki.
16. These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to explore the land. And Moses called Hoshea son of Nun Joshua.
17. Moses sent them to explore the land of Canaan, and he said to them, “Go up like this to the Negev, and go up into the hill country,
18. and you will see what the land is like and if the people who inhabit it are strong or weak, or whether they are few or many,
19. and whether the land that they are inhabiting is good or bad, and whether the cities they are inhabiting are camps or fortifications,
20. and whether the land is fertile or lean, and whether there are trees on it or not. You will show yourself courageous, and you will take some of the fruit of the land.” It was the time of first ripe grapes.
21. So they went up and explored the land from the desert of Zin until Rehob, at Lebo Hamath.
22. They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai the descendants of the Anakites were. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
23. And they came up to the valley of Eshcol, and they cut off a vine branch and one cluster of grapes from there; they carried it on a pole between two men, with pomegranates and figs.
24. That place he called the valley of Eshcol on account of the cluster of grapes that the Israelites cut off from there.
25. They returned from exploring the land at the end of forty days.
26. And they came to Moses and Aaron and to the entire community of the Israelites in the desert of Paran at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the community, and they showed them the fruit of the land.