1. The Lord said to Moses,
2. ‘Send some men to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each ancestral tribe send one of its leaders.’
3. So at the Lord’s command Moses sent them out from the Desert of Paran. All of them were leaders of the Israelites.
4. These are their names:from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zakkur;
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;