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13 ā[1] AND the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying:
ā[2] Send thou keen-sighted men who may explore the land of Kenaan, which I will give to the children of Israel; one man for each tribe of their fathers, thou shalt send from the presence of all their leaders.
ā[3] And Mosheh sent them from the wilderness of Pharan, according to the mouth of the Word of the Lord; all of them acute men, who had been appointed heads over the sons of Israel.
ā[4] And these are the names of the twelve men, the explorers: the messenger of the tribe of Reuben, Shamua bar Zakkur;
ā[5] of the tribe of Shemeon, Shaphat bar Hori;
ā[6] for Jehudah, Kaleb bar Jephunneh;
ā[7] for Issakar, Yiggeal bar Joseph;
ā[8] for Ephraim, Hoshea bar Nun;
ā[9] for Benjamin, Palti bar Raphu;
ā[10] for Zebulon, Gadiel bar Zodi;
ā[11] for Menasheh, Gaddi bar Susi;
ā[12] for Dan, Ammiel bar Gemmalli;
ā[13] for Asher, Sether bar Michael;
ā[14] for Naphtali, Nachbi bar Vaphsi;
ā[15] and for Gad, Geuel bar Machi.
ā[16] These are the names of the men whom Mosheh sent to explore the land; and when Mosheh saw his humility, he called Hoshea bar Nun Jehoshua.
ā[17] And Mosheh sent them to survey the land of Kenaan, and said to them, Go up on this side by the south, and ascend the mountain,
ā[18] and survey the country, what it is, and the people who dwell in it; whether they be strong or weak, few or many;
ā[19] what the land is in which they dwell, whether good or bad; what cities they inhabit, whether they live in towns that are open or walled;
ā[20] and what the reputation of the land, whether its productions are rich or poor, and the trees of it fruitful or not. And do valiantly, and bring back some of the fruit of the land. And the day on which they went was the nineteenth of the month of Sivan, (about) the days of the first grapes.
ā[21] They went up, therefore, and explored the country, from the wilderness of Zin, unto the roads by which thou comest unto Antiochia.
ā[22] They went up from the side of the south and came to Hebron, where were Achiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, sons of Anak the giant Now Hebron was built seven years before Tanis in Mizraim.
ā[23] They came then to the stream of the grapes (or bunches, ethkala), and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and carried it on a staff on the shoulders of two of them, and also took they of the pomegranates and the figs.
ā[24] Now that place they call the stream of the cluster, from the branch which the sons of Israel cut down there; and wine was dropping from it like a stream.
ā[25] And they returned from exploring the land on the eighth day of the month Ab, at the end of forty days.
ā[26] And they came to Mosheh and Aharon, and all the congregation of the children of Israel in the wilderness of Pharan, at Rekem, and returned them word, to them and the whole congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
ā[27] And they recounted to him, and said: We went into the country to which thou didst send us; and it indeed produceth milk and honey, and this is the fruit of it.
ā[28] But the people who inhabit the country are strong, and the fortified cities they inhabit very great; and we saw also there the sons of Anak the giant.
ā[29] The Amalekites dwell in the south, the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites in the mountains; but the Kenaanites dwell by the sea, and by the bank of the Jordan.
ā[30] And Kaleb stilled the people, and made them listen to Mosheh, and said: Let us go up and possess it, for we are able to take it.
ā[31] But the men who had gone up with him said, We are not able to go up to the people, for they are stronger than we.
ā[32] And they brought out an evil report about the land which they had surveyed, to the sons of Israel, saying, The country through which we have passed to explore it is a land that killeth its inhabitants with diseases; and all the people who are in it are giants, masters of evil ways.
ā[33] And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, of the race of the giants; and we appeared to ourselves to be as locusts; and so we appeared to them.
Version: The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862
Source: http://targum.info/targumic-texts/pentateuchal-targumim/
License: Public Domain