Bible Verses About Holy Land

Then he charged them as follows: "I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my ancestors in the cave that is in the field of 'Efron the Hitti,

the cave in the field of Makhpelah, by Mamre, in the land of Kena'an, which Avraham bought together with the field from 'Efron the Hitti as a burial-place belonging to him -

there they buried Avraham and his wife Sarah, there they buried Yitz'chak and his wife Rivkah, and there I buried Le'ah -

"Tell the people of Isra'el, 'When you enter the land I am giving you, the land itself is to observe a Shabbat rest for ADONAI.

Six years you will sow your field; six years you will prune your grapevines and gather their produce.

But in the seventh year is to be a Shabbat of complete rest for the land, a Shabbat for ADONAI; you will neither sow your field nor prune your grapevines.

You are not to harvest what grows by itself from the seeds left by your previous harvest, and you are not to gather the grapes of your untended vine; it is to be a year of complete rest for the land.

ADONAI said to Moshe,

"Send men on your behalf to reconnoiter the land of Kena'an, which I am giving to the people of Isra'el. From each ancestral tribe send someone who is a leader in his tribe."

Moshe dispatched them from the Pa'ran Desert as ADONAI had ordered; all of them were leading men among the people of Isra'el.

Here are their names: from the tribe of Re'uven, Shamua the son of Zakur;

from the tribe of Shim'on, Shafat the son of Hori;

from the tribe of Y'hudah, Kalev the son of Y'funeh;

from the tribe of Yissakhar, Yig'al the son of Yosef;

from the tribe of Efrayim, Hoshea the son of Nun;

from the tribe of Binyamin, Palti the son of Rafu;

from the tribe of Z'vulun, Gadi'el the son of Sodi;

from the tribe of Yosef, that is, from the tribe of M'nasheh, Gadi the son of Susi;

from the tribe of Dan, 'Ammi'el the son of G'malli;

from the tribe of Asher, S'tur the son of Mikha'el;

from the tribe of Naftali, Nachbi the son of Vofsi; and

from the tribe of Gad, Ge'u'el the son of Makhi.

These are the names of the men Moshe sent out to reconnoiter the land. Moshe gave to Hoshea the son of Nun the name Y'hoshua.

Moshe sent them to reconnoiter the land of Kena'an, instructing them, "Go on up to the Negev and into the hills,

and see what the land is like. Notice the people living there, whether they are strong or weak, few or many;