Numbers 13:17-25 ▼

17 So Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, “Go up there into the Negev; then go up into the hill country.

18 And see what the land is like, and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many.

19 And how is the land in which they live, is it good or bad? And how are the cities in which they live, are they like open camps or with fortifications?

20 And how is the land, is it fat or lean? Are there trees in it or not? Make an effort then to get some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the time of the first ripe grapes.

21 So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, at Lebo-hamath.

22 And they had gone up into the Negev and came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

23 Then they came to the valley of Eshcol and from there cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes; and they carried it on a pole between two men with some of the pomegranates and the figs.

24 That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the sons of Israel cut down from there.

25 Then they returned from spying out the land, at the end of forty days,