2. “Send men to explore the land of Canaan, which I will give to the Israelites. Send one leader from each tribe.”
3. So Moses obeyed the Lord’s command and sent the Israelite leaders out from the Desert of Paran.
4. These are their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur;
5. from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori;
6. from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;
7. from the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph;
8. from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun;
9. from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu;
10. from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi;
11. from the tribe of Manasseh (a tribe of Joseph), Gaddi son of Susi;
12. from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli;
13. from the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael;
14. from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vophsi;
15. from the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Maki.
16. These are the names of the men Moses sent to explore the land. (Moses gave Hoshea son of Nun the new name Joshua.)
17. Moses sent them to explore Canaan and said, “Go through southern Canaan and then into the mountains.
18. See what the land looks like. Are the people who live there strong or weak? Are there a few or many?
19. What kind of land do they live in? Is it good or bad? What about the towns they live in—are they open like camps, or do they have walls?
20. What about the soil? Is it fertile or poor? Are there trees there? Try to bring back some of the fruit from that land.” (It was the season for the first grapes.)
21. So they went up and explored the land, from the Desert of Zin all the way to Rehob by Lebo Hamath.