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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses, saying,
2Send men for yourself, and let them scout the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel. You shall send one man, one man, for each tribe of his fathers, every one a chief among them.
3Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, at God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s mouth. All of them were men, heads of the sons of Israel.
4These are their names. For the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur.
5For the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori.
6For the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh.
7For the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph.
8For the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun.
9For the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu.
10For the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi.
11For the tribe of Joseph, for the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi son of Susi.
12For the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli.
13For the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael.
14For the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vophsi.
15For the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Machi.
16These are the names of the men Moses sent to scout the land. Moses called Hoshea son of Nun Joshua.
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Hoshea is the name as it stood. Joshua, Yehoshua, is the name Moses called him. Both are printed where they stand.
17Moses sent them to scout the land of Canaan, and he said to them, Go up this way into the The dry country in the south., and go up into the hill country.
18See the land, what it is, and the people who live on it, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many.
19And what the land is that they live in, whether it is good or bad, and what the cities are that they live in, whether in camps or in fortifications.
20And what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is tree in it or not. Strengthen yourselves and take some of the fruit of the land. The days are the days of the first ripe grapes.
21They went up and scouted the land, from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, at the entrance of Hamath.
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Levo Chamat is “at the entrance of Hamath.” It can also be read as a place name, Lebo-hamath. The phrase is printed.
22They went up into the The dry country in the south. and came to Hebron. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. Hebron was built seven years before Zoan of Egypt.
23They came to the A stream bed that keeps water, or runs when the rain comes. Eshcol, and they cut a branch from there, and one cluster of grapes, and carried it on a pole between two men, and some of the pomegranates and some of the figs.
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Nachal is a wadi, a stream bed. Zemorah is a vine branch. Eshkol is a cluster. Mot is a carrying pole.
24That place was called the A stream bed that keeps water, or runs when the rain comes. Eshcol, on account of the cluster that the sons of Israel cut from there.
25They returned from scouting the land at the end of forty days.
26They went and came to Moses and to Aaron and to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to the whole congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
27They told him and said, We came to the land you sent us to, and it is oozing milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
28But the people who live in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, very large, and we also saw the children of Anak there.
29Amalek lives in the land of the The dry country in the south.. The Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite live in the hill country. The Canaanite lives by the sea and along the Jordan.
30Caleb hushed the people before Moses and said, We will go up, go up, and take possession of it, for we are able, able against it.
31The men who had gone up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.
32They brought out a bad report of the land they had scouted to the sons of Israel, saying, The land we passed through to scout it is a land that eats its inhabitants, and all the people we saw in it are men of great size.
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Dibbah is a bad report. Anshei middot are men of measure, men of great size.
33We saw the A name for the huge people in this story. The story does not say who they were. there, the sons of Anak, from the A name for the huge people in this story. The story does not say who they were.. We were in our own eyes like grasshoppers, and so we were in their eyes.
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Nefilim is left as a name. The verse says the sons of Anak are from the Nephilim. No later story is added.