17 When Moses sent them out to explore the land of Canaan, he said to them, "Go up there into the arid southern plain and into the mountains.
18 You must inspect the land. What is it like? Are the people who live in it strong or weak, few or many?
19 Is the land in which they live good or bad? Are the towns in which they live camps or fortresses?
20 Is the land rich or poor? Are there trees in it or not? Be courageous and bring back the land’s fruit." It was the season of the first ripe grapes.
21 They went up and explored the land from the Zin desert to Rehob, near Lebo-hamath.
22 They went up into the arid southern plain and entered Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of the Anakites, lived. (Hebron was built seven years before Tanis in Egypt.)
23 Then they entered the Cluster ravine, cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and carried it on a pole between them. They also took pomegranates and figs.