Bilangan 13

Bagian: Para pemimpin suku Israel mengintai negeri Kanaan

1 TUHAN berkata kepada Musa, 2 “Utuslah satu orang pemimpin dari tiap suku untuk mengintai negeri Kanaan yang Aku berikan kepada bangsa Israel.” 3 Maka sesuai perintah TUHAN itu, Musa mengutus dua belas pemimpin terpilih dari padang belantara Paran. 4 Berikut ini nama-nama pemimpin dari tiap suku: 16 Itulah nama-nama orang yang diutus Musa untuk mengintai negeri Kanaan. Musa memberikan nama baru kepada Hosea anak Nun, yaitu Yosua. 17 Saat mengutus mereka, Musa berpesan, “Mulailah dari padang belantara Negeb di bagian selatan Kanaan, dan berjalanlah terus ke utara sampai daerah perbukitan. 18 Lihatlah keadaan negeri itu. Perhatikan apakah penduduknya kuat atau lemah, sedikit atau banyak. 19 Amati juga apakah negeri itu baik atau buruk, dan seperti apa tempat tinggal mereka— apakah berupa kota-kota berbenteng atau terbuka tanpa benteng. 20 Selidiki apakah tanahnya subur atau tandus, dan apakah di sana ada pohon-pohonan atau tidak. Usahakan untuk membawa beberapa buah-buahan.” Kebetulan waktu itu adalah awal musim panen anggur. 21 Maka mereka pergi dan menyelidiki negeri Kanaan mulai dari padang belantara Zin sampai ke kota Rehob, dekat jalan masuk Hamat. 22 Sesudah memulai dari Negeb, mereka tiba di kota Hebron, tempat tinggal suku-suku Ahiman, Sesai, dan Talmai, yang adalah keturunan raksasa yang disebut Anakim. (Kota Hebron didirikan tujuh tahun sebelum kota Zoan di Mesir.) 23 Dalam perjalanan kembali, mereka sampai di lembah yang sekarang disebut Eskol. Di situ mereka memotong satu tandan buah anggur yang begitu berat sehingga harus dipikul dengan sebatang kayu oleh dua orang. Itulah sebabnya lembah itu dinamai Eskol (yang artinya Lembah Tandan Anggur). Mereka juga membawa beberapa buah delima dan buah ara dari sana.

Bagian: Laporan tentang Kanaan

25 Sesudah mengintai negeri itu selama empat puluh hari, mereka pun kembali lalu 26 menghadap Musa, Harun, dan seluruh umat Israel di Kades, di padang belantara Paran, untuk menceritakan apa yang sudah mereka lihat. Mereka menunjukkan buah-buahan dari negeri itu. 27 Kata mereka kepada Musa, “Kami sudah pergi ke negeri yang Tuan perintahkan. Benar, negeri itu berlimpah dengan hasil alam. Lihat, ini buah-buahan dari sana. 28 Tetapi penduduk negeri itu sangat kuat. Kota-kota mereka besar dan berbenteng. Kami juga melihat keturunan raksasa Anakim di sana. 29 Orang Amalek tinggal di bagian selatan negeri itu. Orang Het, Yebus, dan Amori tinggal di perbukitan. Sedangkan orang Kanaan tinggal di sepanjang tepi laut dan di sepanjang tepi sungai Yordan.” 30 Kaleb berusaha menenangkan semua orang yang hadir di hadapan Musa. Dia berkata, “Ayo! Mari kita maju menduduki negeri itu. Kita pasti bisa menang!” 31 Tetapi kebanyakan pengintai yang lain menentang Kaleb dengan berkata, “Kita tidak bisa menyerang bangsa-bangsa itu! Mereka lebih kuat daripada kita!” 32 Bahkan untuk menguatkan pendapat mereka, ada yang berbohong dengan berkata, “Negeri itu penuh dengan bahaya mematikan! Banyak sekali korban dari penyakit dan peperangan.” Ada juga yang menambahkan, “Orang-orang yang kami lihat di sana semuanya tinggi besar. 33 Bahkan ada juga raksasa keturunan Anakim! Kami merasa seperti belalang dibandingkan dengan mereka. Dan mereka juga melihat kami begitu kecil seperti belalang.”

1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince among them.” 3 Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Yahweh. All of them were men who were heads of the children of Israel. 4 These were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. 5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori. 6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph. 8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun. 9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu. 10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi. 11 Of the tribe of Joseph, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. 12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli. 13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael. 14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi. 15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. 16 These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua. 17 Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country. 18 See the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many; 19 and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds; 20 and what the land is, whether it is fertile or poor, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be courageous, and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes. 21 So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath. 22 They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) 23 They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs. 24 That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there. 25 They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days. 26 They went and came to Moses, to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them and to all the congregation. They showed them the fruit of the land. 27 They told him, and said, “We came to the land where you sent us. Surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. 28 However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there. 29 Amalek dwells in the land of the South. The Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hill country. The Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along the side of the Jordan.” 30 Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, “Let’s go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it!” 31 But the men who went up with him said, “We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.” 32 They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature. 33 There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim. We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”