¹⁷ So Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, “Go up ^[a]there into ^(A)the ^[b]Negev; then go up into the hill country. ¹⁸ And see what the land is like, and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many. ¹⁹ And how is the land in which they live, is it good or bad? And how are the cities in which they live, are they ^[c]like open camps or with fortifications? ^20 (B)And how is the land, is it fat or lean? Are there trees in it or not? ^[d]Make an ^(C)effort then to get 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 ^(D)the wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, ^[e](E)at Lebo-hamath. ²² And they had gone up into ^(F)the Negev and ^[f]came to Hebron where ^(G)Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the ^[g]descendants of ^(H)Anak were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before ^(I)Zoan in Egypt.)

²³ Then they came to the ^[h]valley of ^[i](J)Eshcol and from there cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes; and they carried it on a pole between two men with some of the pomegranates and the figs. ²⁴ That place was called the valley of ^[j]Eshcol, because of the cluster which the sons of Israel cut down from there.