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20 Examine the farmland,[a] whether it’s fertile or barren, and see if there are fruit-bearing trees in it or not. Be very courageous, and bring back some samples of the fruit of the land.”

As it was, that time of year[b] was the season for the first fruits of the grape harvest. 21 So they went to explore the land from the Wilderness of Zin to Rehob, and as far as the outskirts of Hamath. 22 They went through the Negev[c] and reached Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak lived. (Hebron had been constructed seven years before Zoan in Egypt had been built).[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 13:20 Lit. land
  2. Numbers 13:20 The Heb. lacks of year
  3. Numbers 13:22 I.e. the southern region of Israel; cf. Josh 10:40
  4. Numbers 13:22 The Heb. lacks had been built