Instructions for the Mission

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

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

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and what kind of country they live in, whether it is good or bad; and what kind of cities they live in, open or fortified.

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See whether the land is fertile or unproductive and whether there is wood in it or not. Finally, be bold enough to bring back some of the fruit of the land." When they left it was the season for the first grapes to ripen.

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They went up and reconnoitered the land from the Tzin Desert to Rechov near the entrance to Hamat.

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They went up into the Negev and arrived at Hevron; Achiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the 'Anakim, lived there. (Hevron was built seven years before Tzo'an in Egypt.)

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They came to the Eshkol Valley; and there they cut off a branch bearing one cluster of grapes, which they carried on a pole between two of them; they also took pomegranates and figs.

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That place was called the Valley of Eshkol [cluster], because of the cluster which the people of Isra'el cut down there.

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Forty days later, they returned from reconnoitering the land

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