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         <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Exploring Canaan</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Send some men to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each ancestral tribe send one of its leaders.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.13.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So at the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s command Moses sent them out from the Desert of Paran. All of them were leaders of the Israelites. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">These are their names:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.13.4"><span class="content">from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zakkur;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.13.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.13.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">from the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.13.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.13.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.13.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">from the tribe of Manasseh (a tribe of Joseph), Gaddi son of Susi;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.13.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.13.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">from the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.13.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vophsi;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.13.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">from the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Maki.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.13.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">These are the names of the men Moses sent to explore the land. (Moses gave Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.13.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">When Moses sent them to explore Canaan, he said, &#8220;Go up through the Negev and on into the hill country. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">See what the land is like and whether the people who live there are strong or weak, few or many. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">What kind of land do they live in? Is it good or bad? What kind of towns do they live in? Are they unwalled or fortified? </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">How is the soil? Is it fertile or poor? Are there trees in it or not? Do your best to bring back some of the fruit of the land.&#8221; (It was the season for the first ripe grapes.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.13.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So they went up and explored the land from the Desert of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo Hamath. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, lived. (Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">When they reached the Valley of Eshkol,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:23 </span><span class="fq">Eshkol </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fq">cluster</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 24.</span></span></span><span class="content"> they cut off a branch bearing a single cluster of grapes. Two of them carried it on a pole between them, along with some pomegranates and figs. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">That place was called the Valley of Eshkol because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut off there. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">At the end of forty days they returned from exploring the land.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Report on the Exploration</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.13.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.13.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">They came back to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the Desert of Paran. There they reported to them and to the whole assembly and showed them the fruit of the land. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.13.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">They gave Moses this account: &#8220;We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.13.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large. We even saw descendants of Anak there. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.13.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">The Amalekites live in the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live near the sea and along the Jordan.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.13.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.13.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, &#8220;We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.13.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NUM.13.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">But the men who had gone up with him said, &#8220;We can&#8217;t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="NUM.13.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, &#8220;The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="NUM.13.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">81</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 81</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 81:1-16 is numbered 81:2-17.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. According to </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">gittith.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> Of Asaph.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.81.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Sing for joy to God our strength;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.81.1"><span class="content">shout aloud to the God of Jacob!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.81.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.81.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Begin the music, strike the timbrel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.81.2"><span class="content">play the melodious harp and lyre.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.81.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.81.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Sound the ram&#8217;s horn at the New Moon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.81.3"><span class="content">and when the moon is full, on the day of our festival;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.81.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.81.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">this is a decree for Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.81.4"><span class="content">an ordinance of the God of Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.81.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.81.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When God went out against Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.81.5"><span class="content">he established it as a statute for Joseph.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.81.5"><span class="content">I heard an unknown voice say:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.81.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.81.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;I removed the burden from their shoulders;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.81.6"><span class="content">their hands were set free from the basket.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.81.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.81.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">In your distress you called and I rescued you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.81.7"><span class="content">I answered you out of a thundercloud;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.81.7"><span class="content">I tested you at the waters of Meribah.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">81:7 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.81.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.81.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Hear me, my people, and I will warn you&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.81.8"><span class="content">if you would only listen to me, Israel!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.81.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.81.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You shall have no foreign god among you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.81.9"><span class="content">you shall not worship any god other than me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.81.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.81.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.81.10"><span class="content">who brought you up out of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.81.10"><span class="content">Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.81.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.81.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;But my people would not listen to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.81.11"><span class="content">Israel would not submit to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.81.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.81.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.81.12"><span class="content">to follow their own devices.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.81.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.81.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;If my people would only listen to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.81.13"><span class="content">if Israel would only follow my ways,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.81.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.81.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">how quickly I would subdue their enemies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.81.14"><span class="content">and turn my hand against their foes!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.81.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.81.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Those who hate the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> would cringe before him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.81.15"><span class="content">and their punishment would last forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.81.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.81.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But you would be fed with the finest of wheat;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.81.16"><span class="content">with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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