1. AND THE Lord said to Moses,
2. Send men to explore and scout out [for yourselves] the land of Canaan, which I give to the Israelites. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a leader or head among them.
3. So Moses by the command of the Lord sent scouts from the Wilderness of Paran, all of them men who were heads of the Israelites.
4. These were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur;
5. Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori;
6. Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;
7. Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph;
8. Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea [that is, Joshua] son of Nun;
9. Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu;
10. Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi;
11. Of the tribe of Joseph, that is, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi son of Susi;
12. Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli;
13. Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael;
14. Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vophsi;
15. Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Machi.
16. These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to explore and scout out the land. And Moses called Hoshea son of Nun, Joshua.
17. Moses sent them to scout out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Get up this way by the South (the Negeb) and go up into the hill country,
18. And see what the land is and whether the people who dwell there are strong or weak, few or many,
19. And whether the land they live in is good or bad, and whether the cities they dwell in are camps or strongholds,