Numbers 13:17-25

Moses sent them to explore Canaan. He said, “Go through southern Canaan and then into the mountains. See what the land looks like. Are the people who live there strong or weak? Are there a few or many? What kind of land do they live in? Is it good or bad? What about the towns they live in—do they have walls, or are they open like camps? What about the soil? Is it fertile or poor? Are there trees there? Try to bring back some of the fruit from that land.” (It was the season for the first grapes.) So they went up and explored the land. They went from the Desert of Zin all the way to Rehob by Lebo Hamath. They went through the southern area to Hebron. That is where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai lived. They were the descendants of Anak. (The city of Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) In the Valley of Eshcol, they cut off a branch of a grapevine. It had one bunch of grapes on it. They carried that branch on a pole between two of them. They also got some pomegranates and figs. They call that place the Valley of Eshcol. That is because the Israelites cut off the bunch of grapes there. After 40 days of exploring the land, the men returned to the camp.