13 Then Yahweh told Mosheh (Moses), 2 “Send some men in to explore Kanaan—the land that I’m giving to the Israelis. Send one man from each ancestral tribe—a leader within that tribe.” 3 Then at Yahweh’s command, Mosheh sent them off from the Paran wilderness. They were all Israeli leaders 4 and their names were:

• Shammua (Zakkur’s son) from Reuven tribe,
• 5 Shafat (Hori’s son) from Shimeon tribe,
• 6 Kalev (Caleb—Yefunneh’s son) from Yehudah (Judah) tribe,
• 7 Yigal (Yosef’s son) from Yissakar tribe,
• 8 Hoshea (Nun’s son) from Efrayim tribe,
• 9 Palti (Rafu’s son) from Binyamin tribe,
• 10 Gaddiyel (Sodi’s son) from Zevulun tribe,
• 11 Gaddi (Susi’s son) from Yosef tribe,
• 12 Ammiyel (Gemalli’s son) from Dan tribe,
• 13 Setur (Mikael’s son) from Asher tribe,
• 14 Nahbi (Vofsi’s son) from Naftali tribe, and
• 15 Geuel (Maki’s son) from Gad tribe.

16 Mosheh called (Nun’s son) Hoshea, ‘Yehoshua’ (Joshua). Those were the names of the men that Mosheh sent out to explore Kanaan.

17 So Mosheh sent them to explore Kanaan, telling them, “Go through the Negev and then up into the hill country. 18 Find out what the land’s like, and whether the people living there are militarily strong or weak, and if they’re many or few. 19 Find out whether the land is good or bad, what cities they live in, and how fortified they are. 20 Find out whether the soil is fertile or not, whether or not there’s trees there. Be courageous and bring back some of the produce from that land.” (He said that because it was the time of the year when grapes were starting to ripen.)

21 So the twelve men went and explored the region from the Tsin wilderness in the south, all the way up to Rehob at Levo-Hamat in the north. 22 They started in the Negev, and went as far as Hevron where some of Anak’s descendents lived: Ahiman, Sheshay, Talmai. Hevron had been built seven years before Tsoan in Egypt (Heb. Mitsrayim). 23 When they got to the Eshkol riverbed, they cut off a branch with a cluster of grapes, and carried it on a pole between two of them, along with some pomegranates and figs. 24 (That place was then called Eshkol, meaning ‘cluster’, because of the cluster of grapes they’d taken from there.)